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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind podcast. This is the

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Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and

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Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the

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Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope

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Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: Texas family overjoyed after dog who was missing for two

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Speaker 2: years turns up at a new Jersey wall ride May

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Speaker 2: Heather Riggleman read by Julie Provost. Can you imagine how

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Speaker 2: overjoyed this Texas family felt after their dog, who had

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Speaker 2: been missing for two years, turned up at a new

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Speaker 2: Jersey mall. She was so far from a home. Stories

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Speaker 2: like this don't happen often. It hugs in our hearts

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Speaker 2: when our neighbors ask if we've seen their missing pet,

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Speaker 2: Our hearts sting when we passed those weathered missing posters

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Speaker 2: stapled to telephone poles, and we can't help but feel

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Speaker 2: that quiet ache when a beloved dog or cat disappears

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Speaker 2: and the help of them coming home slowly fades. Anyone

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Speaker 2: who has ever loved an animal knows that they aren't

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Speaker 2: just pets, their family, which is why stories like this

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Speaker 2: one feel nothing short and miraculous. A small gray and

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Speaker 2: white dog named Coco vanished from her home in Glen Heights, Texas,

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Speaker 2: leaving her family believing they might never see her again.

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Speaker 2: Two long years passed, then something incredible happened. On March fourth,

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Speaker 2: somebody spoted the little dog whidering around a shopping mall

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Speaker 2: in Clark, New Jersey, about fifteen hundred miles away from

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Speaker 2: where she had first disappeared. Officers from the Clark Township

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Speaker 2: Police Department arrived at the Clark Commons shopping center after

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Speaker 2: receiving the call about a stray dog roaming the area.

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Speaker 2: Schulman Nick Kruz brought the pup back to the station,

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Speaker 2: where officers discovered she was registered with the Pet Finding Service.

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Speaker 2: That tiny clue led them to Coco's owners in Texas.

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Speaker 2: When the officer called, the family was stunned. After two

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Speaker 2: years of wondering what had happened to their beloved dog,

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Speaker 2: they suddenly received news they never expected to hear. Coco

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Speaker 2: was alive. The family and meet nately made plans to

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Speaker 2: fight in New Jersey, but they would need to wait

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Speaker 2: a few days before they could get there. In the meantime,

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Speaker 2: the officers at the police department did something beautiful. Instead

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Speaker 2: of sending the dog to a shelter, They cared for

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Speaker 2: her themselves. They bathed her, fed her gay retreats, took

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Speaker 2: her for walks, and even brought blankets and toys out

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Speaker 2: of their own pockets to keep her comfortable. Between their

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Speaker 2: regular police duties, the officers made sure Coco was loved

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Speaker 2: and cared for while she waited for her family. For

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Speaker 2: three days, little Doc lived her best life inside the

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Speaker 2: dispatch room, winning over every heart in the building. Then

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Speaker 2: the moment finally came when Coco's owners arrived on March seventh.

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Speaker 2: The reunion was exactly what you'd hope for. According to police,

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Speaker 2: the little pup took off, running right next to her mummy,

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Speaker 2: tail wagging and joy spilling over after two years apart. Smiles, tears,

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Speaker 2: and disbelief filled the room as the family held their

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Speaker 2: long lost dog again. Was a sweet moment for the

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Speaker 2: owners and a bittersweet one for the officers who had

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Speaker 2: grown attached to their temporary guests. The department even wrote

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Speaker 2: on social media that she would be missed. No one

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Speaker 2: knows exactly how Coco made the journey from Texas to

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Speaker 2: New Jersey or what her two years away from home

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Speaker 2: look like. But what we do know is that sometimes

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Speaker 2: the ending we pray for actually happens. Sometimes the loss

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Speaker 2: really are found. Suppose one of you had a hundred

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Speaker 2: sheep and loses one of them, doesn't he leave the

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Speaker 2: ninety nine in the open country and go after the

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Speaker 2: lost sheep until he finds it? Look fifteen four. Family

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Speaker 2: honors veteran's life of hard work by donating his liver

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Speaker 2: at age one hundred, Written by michaeliy Bordoni, read by

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Speaker 2: Julie Provost. At one hundred years old, liver donation is

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Speaker 2: surprising the nation. If you think the delver that's lived

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Speaker 2: in someone for an entire century wouldn't be donor worthy,

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Speaker 2: then you'd be wrong. The donor, Dale Steele, is the

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Speaker 2: oldest donor in US history. Dale had passed on Tebruary eleventh,

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Speaker 2: was a World War Two vet who helped liberate concentration

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Speaker 2: camps and served as a guard at the Nuremberg Trials.

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Speaker 2: Despite his age, Dale was healthy when Live On Nebraska

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Speaker 2: conducted Dale's family to ask if they would donate his liver.

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Speaker 2: It surprised them. Live On Nebraska's chief medical officer, doctor

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Speaker 2: The family agreed to donate the liver, and that transplant

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Speaker 2: was made the following day. This is a story about

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Speaker 2: a life of service, visit and at death. Kyle Herbert,

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Speaker 2: a President and CEO of Live On Nebraska, said, mister

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Speaker 2: Seal lived a full century giving to others, and through donation,

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Speaker 2: that generosity continues in a way that will impact lives

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Speaker 2: for years to come. After Dale's time in the service,

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Speaker 2: he returned home and started a family. Dale met and

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Speaker 2: married Doris Brown. His wife was seventy two years His

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Speaker 2: obituary stated. They raised Hereford cattle and Dale worked at

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Speaker 2: the Farmer's co Op in Bassett, Nebraska. He later managed

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Speaker 2: the Farmer's co Op in Pierced, Nebraska, and before he retired,

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Speaker 2: he sold irrigation and green handling equipment for Pearson and

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Speaker 2: so On Corporated in Osmond, Nebraska. He had a strong

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Speaker 2: body that was able to carry him through his hundredth birthday.

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Speaker 2: I think that came from hard work. His son Roger

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Speaker 2: said people from his generation didn't have a notion of exercise.

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Speaker 2: When they went to bed at night, they retired from

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Speaker 2: having worked hard all day. That was their exercise. Dale

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Speaker 2: was always very helpful and considerate of everyone around him,

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Speaker 2: friends and strangers alike. Dale's grandson, Scott said, we believe

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Speaker 2: he would do just about anything he could do for

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Speaker 2: someone in need. The person who received Dale's liver is

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Speaker 2: out of the hospital in doing well. The great joy

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Speaker 2: I feel in knowing that somebody else was able to

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Speaker 2: benefit from my father's life, even though they're gone, they

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Speaker 2: were able to help somebody else have a life saving gift.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'd like people to take from it. Roger

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Speaker 2: said he would want the acknowledgment of his active kindness

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Speaker 2: to go to the life he saved. Scott said, what

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Speaker 2: a wonderful final act of service. Dale was someone who

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Speaker 2: went his whole life helping people, and this was his

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Speaker 2: final act. What a blessing his life was.

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