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Liam Buckler

Farmer, 80, secretly paid 900 neighbour's pharmacy bills for years to help out

A kind-hearted farmer secretly paid his neighbour's pharmacy bills for years after learning families couldn't afford their bills.

Hody Childress, from Geraldine in Alabama, US, went into his local pharmacy over a decade ago and gave its owner Brooke Walker a $100 (£80) bill.

The retired US air force veteran asked her not to tell customers where the money came from and would return each month to Geraldine Drugs after hearing patients couldn't afford their medication.

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