The Happy Pod: The 88-year-old veteran given nearly $2m by strangers

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  This is the happy pod from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Alex Ritzen and in this edition...

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  I'm 88.

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  And still working?

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  Yes, I have to.

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  Why do you have to keep working?

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  I retired from General Motors in 1999.

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  In 2012 I went bankrupt and they took my pension away from me.

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  The 88-year-old shop worker given nearly $2 million by strangers around the world.

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  One of the few people ever to walk around the world says he was inspired by his rescue dog.

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  When things were difficult for me,

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  I'd look at her and she would walk every mile with her tail out high and happy to see what's up ahead.

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  And so I tried to sort of resemble the same thing where no matter what's going on inside,

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  I would try and just do my job every day, walk those 24 miles.

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  Also,

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  I'm so passionate about telling people what they can do and what they should do and they shouldn't let it stop them from doing anything.

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  The young woman determined to remove the stigma surrounding a medical device.

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  How a metal detectorist in the UK reunited a family in the US with an important part of its history,

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  plus some big baby news.

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  She's our youngest member of the herd.

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