but again, has your house been robed? How did they disappear? Any clue who could take them? May be you replaced them somewhere else, and forgot about it?
It happens to my Mom all the time... once she put my passport in "very safe place".. we could never find it since then.. i had to apply for the new one..:)

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes