For me, nothing is more satisfying discovering hidden gems（珍宝）in secondhand shop. all, one person's trash is another person's treasure.
Two years ago, I came across a collection of dusty photos.I thought, if these were （ I）, or my family's, I'd want someone to return them to me, so I made it my goal to do so for others.
I've since visited secondhand shops （ week）, and have accumulated more than 50, 000 of these items.I organize them in big boxes all over my house in New York.Photographs, home movies, undeveloped films, photo albums - you name it, I've collected it. I've also set up a social media account to help reunite items with their owners or other family members.The quickest we've been able to find an owner is within two minutes.Someone commented below a photo I posted,
"I think that's my child's preschool teacher." The longest we've taken to find someone is four months, but I'm proud that we still made it.There are （ thousand） of photos that have yet to be reunited. social media, this project would not be possible.
People are often quite emotional when we get in touch - most of these items are （ lose） after a house move or a family death.Sometimes people donate a camera to a charity shop and forget to take the memory card out. We once （ manage）to reunite a family with pictures from 1943, which was special.I found a can containing two rolls of film at a shop.One of my followers found a family on a heritage site, and their old photographs looked similar to the ones I found.We contacted them, and they confirmed their ancestors were in the photographs.They were extremely grateful and said that a family member had recently moved out of New
York, which is probably how the film ended up at a secondhand store. I'd love to create a building to hold all these memories.I want every photo and video to be digitized so they can be preserved online.I'm bringing together a team to return the photos to their owners. , I am still working on it since we are short of money.Maybe one day, I can realize my dream.
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