When the water receded, it took Mackenzie Spiroff’s new life with it. The stench of sewage and fish clung to her St. Petersburg home — or what was left of it — as she navigated the graveyard of her past before the storm.
Spiroff knew what she needed to save: a shoebox of fond memories, her father’s pottery and the “soggy brick” resembling her record collection. Notes and photographs dried scattered across her driveway, and dazed, the 21-year-old UF graduate baked in the sun along with them.
Everything else, she laid to rest…