Holy crap. You would not believe what just happened. Immediately after posting the last farewell to my negatives, I went to the large moving box filled with all of my random photos and negatives and picked up a white envelope from a photo company I went to in the Rio Grande Valley that said "reprints 1-8x10 each". I opened it up, and there was each of my missing negatives, individually wrapped in an envelope. I remembered that I had had the photos reprinted for a fundraiser in the Valley (and I had no access to a darkroom, so I had to have them done by someone else). I guess I never put the negatives back whhere they belonged. Thank god(s) I found them. Good thing, too. That place sucked at darkroom reprinting.