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. . . so.

as a child. . . my grandfather really fell into the beanie baby craze. He would pick me up from school and I would be dragged on a daily route to several different stores to try and get 5 copies of every single beanie. We would go to strange places that happened to be raffling off rare ones to see if we could win. My cousin did manage to win the Princess Diana bear at one of those. We went to Canada on vacation and found a store that if you bought $120 of beanie babies, you got Maple bear for free. When the tiny ones came out at McDonalds - my grandpa bought so many happy meals they filled our freezer and we ate heated up happy meals for weeks. I spent hours helping him put tag protectors on every beanie and sorting them and counting and making sure we had 5 of each one. Any time news came up about one maybe having a weird print or something, they all came back out so we could see.

Supposedly one day I will inherit one entire set.

This is my story, this is my life.