As you know, I completed the 1956 Topps set five years ago. It happened in April. Wonderful day. Two months later, I bought a car. Not much to connect the two events at the time, except I had some extra cash floating around that allowed me to do both things. But on Thursday -- five years later -- the end of a long, winding journey arrived for both. Here's how: Yesterday afternoon, finally, FINALLY, I picked up that same vehicle from the body shop. This is the one that was attacked by ice three months ago, rendering it undriveable. Through a combination of factors -- overloaded and understaffed body shops, the backwoods in which I live, way more damage than originally anticipated, incredible wait times for shipment of parts -- I was without that vehicle for three months and six days. Because of various other issues, some of which I mentioned earlier, the only traveling I did for a month was to and from work and to and from the grocery store down t...
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