(Welcome to my VACATION! I couldn't be more pleased right now. Sit back and enjoy a post from someone who is elated to be writing about cards when the most important thing going on in his life right now is WRITING ABOUT CARDS! It's Cardboard Appreciation time. This is the 165th in a series): This is the first and only Hostess card that I ever obtained by eating a package of Hostess Twinkies. It came off a panel from a box that was at my grandmother's house in 1977. I couldn't tell you who the other two players were on the panel. They instantly disappeared when the Lopes card came into view. Outside of that one moment, I never knew the double-sided joy of empty calories and flimsy trading cards. Hostess was off-limits in my family. It wasn't like it was a rule posted on the kitchen wall. They just never made it into the house. We did find Hostess for sale at the school cafeteria snack table at lunch time. And when I heard last week that Hostess was cl...
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