2025-03-24
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Michael, I've heard that you're a little bit of a hoarder.
What sorts of things do you like to collect?
Well, I collect a lot of strange things.
Some of them are football paraphernalia, so I've collected relics from World Cups.
I do collect also and keep a lot of family documents that other people wouldn't.
So I have from my father, records of my parents wedding, rental car receipt.
Rental car receipts, the rental car receipt.
The inventory of furniture.
Hey, I'm Masjia Fuchs and on this episode of Lives Less Ordinary, I'm talking.
To Michael Vasante, a writer,
journalist and self confessed hoarder of family documents and other ephemera,
where they went for their.
Honeymoon, the diaries of what they did on their cruises.
So I like to hold onto things in history.
There is one artifact that Michael will likely never own but has spent the last five years obsessively chasing.
The Gutenberg Bible,
the book that led to the Reformation in Europe and one of the most precious books in the world.
In his pursuit, Michael has gotten tantalizingly close to some of its pages.
So I've held several in my hands and have many in front of me pages.