KID CLASSICS - OLD BALLS, PLEASE...

Here's a strange little story for you concerning the item in

the above ad.  I bought my first and only TONIBELL MINIBALL

back around 1967 or '68.  (Hard to believe it was over 40 years ago.)

When I moved house in 1972, I was sure I'd brought it with me to my

new home, but, mysteriously, I couldn't find it.  I'd kept it behind the

water tank up in the attic, and I was sure I'd retrieved it the night

before moving, but - search as I might in our new abode - it

was nowhere to be found.

Over the years, I would regularly have dreams in which I'd

find myself back in my old house, searching for my trusty friend

from childhood.  Anyway, to cut a long story short, 19 years later I

decided to determine its fate once and for all, and managed to gain ac-

cess to my old house and its attic - and was overjoyed (if flabbergasted)

to discover my yellow-coloured miniball exactly where I'd left it so many

years before - completely untouched.  So, not only was I the last person

to see it back in 1972, I was the first person to clap eyes on it again in

1991.  Strangely, the 24 years that have elapsed since I retrieved it

don't seem a fraction of the time it lay undiscovered and

neglected behind the water tank.

And guess what?  I've never had those dreams again
since that day  I finally solved the mystery of the dis-
appearing little yellow ball.

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