SODAPOPBOB
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I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far and encourage others to participate as well. Its great to see all of those special and valuable soda bottles that for many of us I'm sure took years to hunt down and accumulate. The Country Boy I posted involved a ten year search that finally came about due to a trade with another collector. Had it not been for my having a bottle he wanted and vice versa, I might still be looking for one because of their scarcity. Which brings me to another aspect of rare and valuable bottles that involves the elation we experience once they are acquired, accompanied by the aspect of almost forgetting you even have them later on. For the first week following the acquisition of my Country Boy all I could do was to admire it, almost being afraid to handle it for fear of it getting scratched or accidently broken. But now, two years later, it seems I rarely even look at it anymore except to occasionally dust it off. But that doesn't mean I don't still covenant it, because I truly do. It just means there might be some truth to the old adage which states "familiarity breeds indifference." However, and this is the weird part, if something were to happen to my Country Boy to cause damage or if it were to turn up missing or stolen, you can be certain I would have a total breakdown and start crying like a school girl with her ponytails caught in a wringer washer. The moral of my story is this - never take for granted those select few bottles in our collections that we consider our favorites and most valuable - its possible you may never find another one.
Thanks again to all.
Bob
Thanks again to all.
Bob
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