He strolls along the shore and will pick up litter if he finds it to beautify the area.
Recently, he picked up a bottle out of the sand, thinking it was just trash.
When he looked closer, he realized that there was a message rolled up in that bottle.
The message came from a woman named "Kim," describing what she thought might be her last beach day with her 85-year-old mother.
What hit Doug even harder was that he himself lost his mother at 85-years-old this summer.
The message seemed to have found the right person at the right time.
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