EXCHANGE: Ill. card collector deals in creativity

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Published July 1, 2014 10:36am ET
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EXCHANGE: Ill. card collector deals in creativity
In this June 6, 2014 photo Al Reiterman, stands in a room that holds 14,117 decks of cards at his home in Latham, Ill. Reiterman has been collection decks of cards since 1970. (AP Photo/Herald & Review, Danny Damiani) | Danny Damiani

LATHAM, Ill. (AP) — Al Reiterman began collecting decks of playing cards in 1970. He never stopped.

It started like this, he said: “I saw a display of playing cards. They were priced at $3. I bought a deck.”

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