Dede Horan's avocation as a postcard collector started when she was about 10 years
old, and heard something drop between the fireplace mantel and her
bedroom wall. She reached behind the mantel and felt a sturdy, worn piece of paper that made a noise as she fished it out. "It was a Squeaker," said Horan, a tidy woman who wears her silver
hair in a pageboy. She gives her age as "collecting postcards for over
50 years."
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