AsyncStorage setItem and getItem confusion

I mainly used shorthand to pull some data from Firebase and you need a way to get that data even if nextProps is not being fed into it. this.state is cleared when the screen is redisplayed. I thought I'd give an asynchronous shot (not sure if this is the correct use case ???)

Here is my code:

 _loadInitialState = (nextProps) => {
      AsyncStorage.setItem('currentListing', JSON.stringify(nextProps));
    }

    _renderInitialState = async () => {
      try {
        const value = await AsyncStorage.getItem('currentListing');
        if (value !== null){
    // We have data!!
      return JSON.parse(value);
    }
} catch (error) {
  // Error retrieving data
}
    }

      

        
        
        
      

    

This is what I get when I _renderInitialState:

{"_40":0,"_65":1,"_55":{"selectedListing":{"listingAttributes":{"avgRating":0,"bio":"Hey","bodyType":"Meso","category":"Endurance","experience":"Btbtt","gender":"Male","location":"somewhere","media":"lmao","name":"Josh","price":"23456","userId":"KruIzhLvPTctEoo8HZWQ2ell4ro2"}}},"_72":null}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Why are my keys in numbers, I thought "currentListing" was supposed to be my key that I set? How to get results from the key now?