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First of all, how many drinks did you have on that flight?
But as this is the US, if there is a dollar to be made, there is someone trying to make it. Thus your luggage is likely to end up on someplace like Unclaimed Baggage which states:
The nation's only retailer of lost luggage
All bags go through an extensive 3-month tracing process to be reunited with their owner.
So someone will try and contact you, and after 3 months you can attempt to buy your belongings back.
This place is headquartered in Alabama, but I am sure I have driven past something similar in North Carolina.