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It was the summer of 2006, and the small, humid town of Biloxi, Mississippi, was still stitching itself back together after Hurricane Katrina. Among the broken docks and rebuilt FEMA trailers, there was a peculiar thrift shop called "Last Chance Salvage." It was run by an old Vietnamese woman named Mrs. Hà, who had a reputation for selling things that didn't quite belong in this world.