Sao Darly

Last Friday was a great day for me because I received a care package from Laos filled with Lao stamps and one Lao Stamps Catalogue. I have to admit that I started my stamps collection since 1984 in Laos. At that time my only source of stamps were from relatives in the south, those that wrote to my parents on a rare occasion. When we spent more than two years in the refugee camps in Thailand the collection grew to stamps from the US and from Laos. After our relocation to the US, my fondness of stamps was not a priority and I only collected used stamps donated by teachers and classmates. I gained a new hobby then with collecting baseball cards and football cards and gave my collection to my youngest brother when I went off to the university.

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