CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charles Browne really wanted to find Kyle Busch.
Standing on pit road at Dover International Speedway on a rainy October day, Browne finally found the 2015 champion and struck up a conversation.
But why was he looking for him?
"I always wanted to meet him again so I could thank him for everything he had done and how he impacted my life," Browne said later.
Browne's story became intertwined with Busch's about a decade ago. It began with a 4,000-mile move, a slew of questions ... and plenty of pizza.
Browne's father aspired for his sons to have a good education. America was the answer.
On March 8, 2006 -- a date forever engrained in his mind -- Browne, his father and younger brother Dustin made the journey from Liberia to the United States.
New home, surroundings and people awaited Browne on the shores of America. At first, the adjustment was not easy. Browne faced a new culture with only a few family members for support. His dialect dripped with a thick Liberian accent. He was shy and afraid to speak in school.
Circumstances at home made the transition tougher. Six months after he arrived in the United States, social services removed Charles and Dustin from their home due to abuse. They were sent to Church of God Children's Home, a nonprofit, residential group home for abandoned, abused and orphaned children.
"I cried," Browne admitted. "I used to cry like every day because I was missing my mother, first of all. I didn't have (anybody) but my dad and my brother -- he was with me. It was like, I'm in this place with just my brother and all these other people I don't even know.
"I just wanted to be around family."
Luckily, "family" was just the design of the place Browne was about to call his temporary home.
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