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When someone ignores the ceasefire

I have basically completed the 1977 Topps set. I'm just waiting for a few upgrades to trickle in, but I do have all 660 cards. I've double-checked for gremlins, too, and there is nothing missing. I'll put together a fitting tribute for that set some time in the future but I can't right now because I'm still buried in cards from 1979. Yup, 1979. That set that I said I was going to collect next, but wasn't ready for yet. I wasn't going to put up a want list, or request cards, or any of that because, I'll say it again ... I WASN'T READY YET. Nobody listens to me. I'm just now emerging from under an avalanche of '79 Topps sent to me from Adam of ARPSmith's Sports Obsession . He sent me around 350 cards from the 1979 set in a totally unprovoked fashion. He said he sent them so I could "get a jump" on the set. Well, here's the thing. I already got a jump on the 1979 set. Back in 1979. I accumulated around 400 or so ca...