Hello Tracy! It has been a while. I hope that things are going well with you in China...

I was honestly about to write you because I wanted to Thank You for pretty much getting me into this great hobby. Around the same time, about two years ago, I sent you an e-mail from out of the blue and took a stab on asking whether or not you still had those Hollywood Park chips/plaques for sale. You didn't have it, but with many things in life, one closed door leads to another open one. I was only going to just acquire the Snake sets, but I was able to get other sets within the series at a reasonable price and it was down that Rabbit Hole I went. Met some great people along the way and started my humble collection; I even got my membership. After being very patient and spending several bucks here and there...the only missing set I have left is just the 2010 Tiger set. (Managed to get all those Chipco ones, even the plaques...surprisingly.) I was going to email you then when I would get that last set...but you dropping by to say, "Hello" here prompted me to reply to you at this time.

Living in this world where people are pointing out things that are wrong, I see nothing wrong with expressing a compliment...especially giving credit where credit is due.

Thanks again, Tracy! Welcome back....

Carl Reyes
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