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Brown said that while he feels lucky to just be alive, he hopes people know how much it means to be reunited with a family heirloom or keepsake after losing everything.

\"If you find something that belongs to anybody, if there’s any way you can get it back to them, I believe they’d be greatly appreciative,\" Brown said. \"It might be the only memory they have of a certain event or certain person.\"

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