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For Lewi Brown, the EARLS Collection ASICS wasn't just a sneaker drop—it was the catalyst that reconnected him with his nana after years of silence. Here's how honouring his late grandfather's spirit brought his family back together...

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00:00me and my nana hadn't spoken since my grandfather's death so for me i put myself in my mum's shoes
00:04and through her lens but like for her to open up her like social media and see her mum in
00:09a like
00:10global campaign that her son has created the shoe for but it's also been collabed by this uh
00:16assics that my nana's my pop wore his whole life like it's i put myself in her perspective and for
00:23her that's a something i can't even feel so i look at it from different angles not just about myself
00:28but it's something that it's changed my life bro like it's in a way i've changed my life of like
00:32healing like i felt like this was another level of healing i had to go to like i had to
00:37face stuff
00:37like reconnect my nana like me and my nana hadn't spoken since my grandfather's death i would spoken
00:42but it was very emotional and we spoke and it was never like that when before he was like when
00:47he
00:47was alive but it's just understanding like we all grieved differently and we triggered each other but
00:52life gave me an opportunity to read like not that we ever disconnected but to be able to reconnect on
00:56this level and like out of everyone in the world she knows like how tight me and my grandfather
01:01like bond was he was my hero and like he was there like have him there like people like think
01:07i'm
01:07weird talking about him spiritually like his wairua like wairua is maori and spirit and maori and
01:12i could feel him there like he's he's someone that i look up to in the sky each night when
01:17i see the
01:17first star at talk to him and i just hope he's proud and my dad's proud

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