! init var to prevent uninitialized error in some cases

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! no need to keep looking once found

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! could be empty, so we should check before we use it

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! prevent errors if bad data is submitted

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! all of that should be in the conditional since it needs anItem

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! the topic query did not use topic range?
! add the topic id min/max finder for a user

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