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It is early January and Brown is
sitting at Tower 7’s counter. Leaning
against his chair are crutches and on
his left foot, a cast. He returned home
from Oahu early this year, but not by
choice. Brown broke his foot in three
places while skateboarding and had to
fly back to Wilmington for surgery.
After a misadventure like that,
one might expect Brown’s mood
would be cloaked in melancholy.
Instead, he smiled through his thick
winter beard. He was bummed to
be back so early, no doubt, but he
could not complain.
“Every year I leave Hawaii alive,”
he says, “it is a good thing.”
