Unfortunately, I set that apple account up about 20 years ago! I never attached a card to it, because I didn't want them to have my card info... which is biting me now! I only ever used gift cards to make purchases... so they've also got about $13 of my unredeemed gift card balance held hostage, lol.

The password issue could be something like that, but I've tried running through every caps/non-caps/which-punctuation-mark-did-I-toss-in/did-it-have-a-number that I can think of for the email password to no success. I'm afraid I picked an actually *unique* password and really screwed myself! I've even tried misspellings of the likely author names in case I biffed it when I entered it, lol. I'm again a bit stuck because this was my first "real" email, and there is a non-zero chance that 14 year old me threw in some dumb answer that was funny at the time, or was just the author of the most recent book I'd liked and then left no lasting impression on me or something. And unfortunately, yahoo only offers "premium" customer support by phone, and I ain't paying to try and get in, lol.

I'm wondering if I have any stored passwords on any ancient laptops at my mom's house or anything...