I found my old Lincoln Cent album

Like many people I have moved several times in my adult life. Some moves have been because of work, some to cut down on commute time, and even once for just a 3 year hiatus in my early 20's to south Florida for the heck of it. As a result of these moves I have boxes of stuff that have followed me in my travels and usually end up unopened in an attic, garage, basement or closet at my new location. I have been at my current address for over 10 years now and decided to clean out some stuff in my garage to make room for a weight bench {which will be gathering dust in a month, I'm sure}. Going through an old box of yearbooks, High School athletic awards,old photos, Cal Ripken autographed baseball..I found mixed in my old penny album!! It is a Whitman fold-up book#2 with cents from 1940-present {which at the time was around 1978} Opening it up I saw three bright steel pennies-as shiny as ever-dated 1943, 43-D and 43-S. As I sat looking at them I remembered like it was yesterday the winter storm in 1979 and how I spent 3 days shoveling snow with my buddy Rusty for $5 for a driveway and sidewalk. I made about $30 between sledding and snowball fights and when the roads were clear enough and the stores re-opened I had my mom drive me to the coin store to buy these 3 pennies. Thirty years later, I still have those great memories of old friends, a mom who got me interested in coin collecting, snow days free from school, and all I had to do to return to those care-free days of my youth is open up my old penny album and gaze back in time..