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>Never collected the cards that much, but understood their importance due to my little brother's obsession with them
>Got him the Mew ancient card for his birthday since he had pneumonia while the movie was out
>Got a holographic charizard card as well from the packs he got for his birthday
>Comes crying to me one day that he'll get beat up and whitewashed if he doesn't give his charizard card and other rare cards up
>Find out it's some kid a couple grades above him
>Casually stroll by him and ask if there was anyone we could jump for their cards to confirm it was him
>Tells me he was going to do it to my lil bro
>Instantly tell myself "gotcha" and put him in a headlock
>Tell him my parents and I gave him those cards and if you steal from him you steal from us
>Grab a clump of snow with my free hand and ask him if he's going to still do it
>Almost starts crying no
>Tell my brother what happened and let me know if it happens again
Few months later...
>My birthday
>Get a card from my brother
>Open it to see that holographic charizard fall out in a plastic sleeve
Bastard almost made me tear up and gave me a cavity with how sweet that was