Article: Magnetic attraction; At 4,203 and counting, it takes more than a refrigerator door to display this collection.

IT STARTED WITH those magnetized plastic letters you stick on the fridge for your kids to play with.

Sandra Diem bought a few sets for her son, Sean, about 10 years ago.

Something about those refrigerator magnets stuck.

And how.

Today, Diem has more than 4,000 refrigerator magnets stuck to just about every magnetized surface in her New Holland home.

Actually, Diem keeps a running tab. The number when this story was written was 4,203. It's higher now. Guaranteed. Diem can't stop.

"Anything that has a magnet on it, I'll take," she says with a laugh.

She's got them on the fridge, of course. And the washer and the dryer, and the stove, and a wall that she prepared with magnetized paint, and the ...

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