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NICK EICHER, HOST: A viral video last year sure made a difference in the life of Kevin Ford this year. Audio from the Today Show.

KEVIN FORD: I didn’t go 27 years without missin’ a day for nothing.

Twenty-seven years, same Burger King. Kind of a high-turnover business, so maybe you can excuse their not knowing how to mark an occasion like this.

In any event, Kevin Ford put a video on social media showing nothing but gratitude for the small goodie bag he got for his long service: a bag of candy, a tumbler, couple rolls of lifesavers, things like that.

So his daughter set up a Go Fund Me to raise a few hundred dollars so Ford could fly to see his grandkids.

FORD: When I finally got to hold them and see them. It was like everything to me.

Meantime, that Go Fund Me kept growing to several hundred thousand dollars. But it doesn’t appear to have changed him.

With the money, he says he’s able to buy groceries for needy people at the store.

FORD: Spreading the love and showing people that that human spirit is still alive and well and that I'm proof of it.

Definitely. And a year later, he STILL hasn’t missed a day of work!

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