HOW MIGHT I LOCATE A PHOTO ALBUM FOR WHICH I AM WILLING TO PAY A $2000 REWARD?

I had two photo albums, both normal height but only half the length of a typical album. Each was last seen (I think) in a storage facility in Shrewsbury, MA. The albums & their contents are of NO CASH VALUE to most, but to me ONE of is PRICELESS. The one I most want to find has photos of me & my fiancée (no longer together) and has an index card taped to the front with the wording ALMOST VERBATIM IN CURSIVE READING: "Enclosed are the photos of the future Mrs. Krista (My French last name)". There may have been one line of mushy sentiment and then it was signed, "Love Scott". There may have been a date on the index card that was taped to it but I do not think so, and I also don’t think I wrote my full name on the card. Every photos included the same girl alone, and about half included me, my family, my friends, locations such as on the front page 3 couples on the Swan Boats, lots of pics from Ocean City NJ with the girl, & I think on the back page there were at least 2 photo booths from the arcade shots of said girl and me. She would have ranged from 16 to 25 in the photos as far as age, and there should be at least three formal dances. I am nearly certain the album was green with a gold colored outline.

The orher album, which was brown, included me with my buddies - NO INSCRIPTION - but you would have noticed an inordinate number of Large Pro athletes (African American) contrasting white college aged kids, more family photos, AND A TON OF “UNIV. OF MIAMI” PARAPHERNELIA AS THAT IS WHERE I attended and thus the photos of me with friends (except for the really old ones) were mostly of kids with who I attended Miami. There were pics of Kenny Phillips of Natick in there with me; if you happened upon it I think, Sean Gibbons of Atlanta strumming a guitar by himself, a photo of me when I was skinny standing in the hall with a DARK GREEN t-shirt that is really accented by the late 80s style Chuck D Pirates cap, & pics of Darryl Williams & Warren Sapp.

My best bet, IF NOT THE STORAGE FACILITY, is in which there would also have been Cassette tapes, as well as samples from my Dad's days as a rug and shade salesman. I am guessing that the contents to this Storage were sold in a blind auction, and while this photo album HAS ZERO CASH VALUE TO OTHERS, I would pay up to 2000 dollars (that is everything I have) in a NANOSECOND for it. The photo album with the pics of my friends I might pay like 50 dollars for.

IF ANYONE HAS ANY IDEA HOW I MIGHT RETRIEVE THIS RELATIVELY NON-DESCRIPT PHOTO ALBUM, and if they have it I would be able to ID it from the description of maybe three or four of the at least 72 to 100 pics that are inside, PLEASE GIVE ME A TIP AS TO HOW TO SPREAD THE WORD.

Like I said, while I am almost positive it was last in Storage in Shrewsbury, MA, there is also a slight chance that it may have either last been seen in a giant seventeen room farm house my family owned through the year 2000 in Holliston BUT we hired a company to come in and clean it out, what they thought they could sell they got to auction - everything else was put into a TO BE THROWN OUT pile and a pile of stuff for my family to go thru -- the album never made it to the pile for my family to go thru, I DOUBT THEY THREW IT OUT, and I know they wouldn’t have sold it. At the same time after moving from Holliston, my parents downsized to a two bedroom in Grafton and I downsized to a studio in Davis Square. I am 99 percent certain it never made it to my Davis Sq. bowling alley style studio, I think there is a better than 50-50 chance it made it to the place in Grafton. THAT IS WHERE MY PARENTS THINK THEY LAST SAW IT. They had to move out of the place in Grafton with short notice AND that is when I think it made its now infamous trip to the storage unit from which it has never returned.

I will pay 2000 dollars NO QUESTIONS ASKED breaking the bank if the pics are in even pretty good condition. I imagine if they were left in the album they should be. The ironic thing is that my now ex (since happily married with children) fiancée has an identical album that I put together for her back in 1998. However, although it was not an ugly break-up, she REALLY wants to move forward - as she should some 15 yrs later - but it took me a years to get there. So since she has the exact same pictures in a similar album, I did last attempt to contact her about it maybe 4 yrs ago and asked could I get copies via snail mail with a signatue needed.. I never heard back from her– which was her polite way of ending contact.. She may still have them, she may not. She may have burned them – thrown em out... I will likely never know.. She may be using the album as table leg stabilizer. Though the chance is decent she might still have them, contacting her again is a non-starter as she may misconsture my reaching out after saying I would not do so again.

So, any suggestions, ideas? Sincerely, Scott (last name)