There's still a lot of little kid in Jack Krasula when it comes to autographs. The difference now is that he has broader horizons, and there's no grumpy nun smacking his hand with a ruler.

Maybe she'd have been less judgmental back in third grade if she'd known he would someday own a letter from the Father of Our Country, thanking a Frenchman for a compliment. Or that Krasula is working on a way to show his astonishing collection to the world, free of charge.

"The George Washington letter," says Krasula, of Bloomfield Hills, and you can track his voice rising to an exclamation point. "That's 240 years old, that piece of paper. 1785!"

Yes. And there's Thomas Jefferson from 1806, and Abraham Lincoln from 1865, only 2 ½ months before he was shot. And sports stars and Mahatma Gandhi and Flo

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