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After George finished school, he was ready to join university. However, as fate would have it, his life and that of his family changed, when his father got a heart attack and passed away, in the school where he was working as a janitor. George’s mother found it difficult to manage and take care of the family, which consisted of George who was the eldest and his three younger siblings, Evan and Mathew who were twins aged nine and his youngest sister Bella who was three years old.
George decided that college and university could wait as he needed to help his mother take care of the family, so he took up a job, working as an apprentice to a Philatelist in the city. Every morning, George would leave for work at seven in the morning to reach work by nine. He had to take a bus to go to the city and traffic was busy in the mornings.
Mister Harvey Abramovich, was an elderly gentleman, with a stooped back, possibly because you could always find him looking through a magnifying glass at the stamps in his large albums. He was a strict man, but he was determined to make sure that the young George learned a lot about stamps. George was a quick learner and it was not long before, he knew the designs, marks and signs of rare and minted stamps. He also enjoyed looking up the “Stanley…
