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“This room holds a lot of memories and I thank God every day for each and every one of them,” she wrote, before going on to share a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built of love and dreams.”

As Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it, Brown’s death on the scaffold turned him into a “new Saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.”

Waldo's shops are a common sight on Mexico high streets, with hundreds of outlets across the country.

The blaze broke out on Saturday in the centre of the north-western city of Hermosillo at a branch of Waldo's - Mexico's largest discount chain.

“It reminds me of ‘Where’s Waldo?’,” said Dowdy, 47, a former chef and a longtime tow-truck driver who branched into repossessions in 2014.