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The Great Invisible: ĺ䁥€_This Stuff Defines Himĺ䁥ĺ

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary The Great Invisible, Doug Brown, a survivor of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, and his wife, find themselves reliving the tragedy via “the stuff” he’s kept around their house as a vivid reminder of that fateful day.

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