Closing a card can also impact your credit score in two other ways:
1. Length of credit history
2. Amount of credit available
By closing the $19K card you are going to drastically reduce your available credit, which may make you look less trustworthy to other creditors. Also, if this is your oldest card and you close it, it will shorten your credit history.
I'm not sure how much either of these, or the combination, will ding your score.
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