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MORGAN: Abbey Road, London.

Five decades ago, four young men made this street famous all around the world and just

a few steps up the street there on June 25, 1967 they performed a song

live by satellite to an audience of almost half a billion people.

That song was "All You Need Is Love."

It was the summer of love.

I was working at a little theater in Vermont when I heard it and like so many

young people everywhere, we were swept up by the sense of hope

that love was all you needed to end war, poverty and oppression.

It's easy, right?

It seems naïve now.

But stop and think for a minute about how our lives are built around love.

Families and our communities.

Is it really naïve to think that love can change the world?

What happens when we don't have love?

Why these children rocking back and forth?

IZIDOR: Because children were never held as infants.

MORGAN: Why are we willing to suffer for love?

Even die for it.

WILL: What happens on those battlefields forges something that truly cannot

be repeated anywhere else.

MORGAN: Should passion be left to fate?

HINA: Is it really meant to just be chance that you meet someone that you're meant to

spend the rest of your life with?

MORGAN: And can love reach everyone?

JOSHUA: It's a way of making someone feel like that there's someone out there who cares.

(theme music plays)

MORGAN: This is my journey to discover the ties that bind us

and the common humanity inside us.

This is The Story of Us.

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I'm in Southern California to meet Izidor Ruckel.

Izidor grew up in a Romanian orphanage and didn't experience the love most of us

take for granted, the love of a parent.

You were born in Romania?

-That is correct.

-But you wound up in an orphanage at an early age?

-I did.

My parents took me to a hospital to be treated for my flu or cold.

The doctor gave me an injection and instead of the needles being sterilized and

disinfected it was used time after time, on children after children.

And I contracted polio.

So my parents said "What on earth did you do to his leg?

His leg is dead, he can't move it any more."

The doctor said "He'd have to stay here for a couple of weeks."

Once my parents left me there they never came back.

At the age of three years old I was put in the hospital for the irrecoverable children and

grew up there until I was 11 years old.

MORGAN: In the 24 years that Nicholai Ceausescu ruled Romania many children

shared Izidor's fate.

Ceausescu decreed that every family must have at least five children or pay an

extreme tax penalty.

If you couldn't afford to feed five children, often the only option was

to give some of them to one of Romania's over crowded state orphanages.

So Izi, you spent eight years growing up

in an orphanage.

What was that like?

-There are moments where you wonder am I gonna survive this?

None of us were taken outside.

-No sunlight? -No sunlight.

-Looking around at where we are, playground, the trees, the grass.

-We did not have anything like this.

-Nothing close to it? -No.

I wanted to show you this video, so you could actually see it for yourself what my

life in the institution was in Romania.

-I mean even the building from the outside looks intimidating.

-When you walk into the building you smell nothing but soaked urine and feces.

-Oh my goodness gracious.

About how many kids can you think lived in that orphanage?

-It would be about 400, 500 children.

-400 or 500 children and not nearly enough people to look after them.

-No.

-Why are these children rocking back and forth?

-Because children were never held as infants and they were developing ways to nurture

themselves and rocking back and forth was one of the ways.

-You experienced this?

-I experienced it, I used to rock back and forth for a long time and

I grew out of that eventually.

-Who is that kid? -That was me.

That was me in 1990.

I had more opportunity than others.

I had a worker named Onesha and I actually still have her picture.

And um, I will never forget this woman, she was one of the most amazing workers

that worked there.

Onesha took me home for one night.

I forgot about the institution.

My experience at home was the greatest gift.

She cared for me like I was her son, from that moment on.

Other workers saw my potential.

OK, I wanna take him home too.

And from there it just gradually grew till I went home with almost the entire

staff that worked there.

It's because of them that I learned how to love, how to have compassion, how to care,

how to have sympathy.

I mean I had never done that before.

I never could have hugged someone.

-Did you see this happen for any other kids?

-No.

I was very fortunate and lucky and because of their love I believe I was able to

grow and develop a lot better than others.

-So how did you get out of this orphanage?

-These workers called out my name and another boys name, Ciprian.

Izidor and Ciprian, come here.

You're going to America.

-Just like that?

-Just like that and we were shocked.

So they put us in a nurses office and I asked who's gonna be my Mom?

And Marlys said "I'm gonna be your Mom" and I said then that's what I

want my Mom to be.

-So your parents are here?

-Yes, Mom and Dad, come right in.

-Good morning, Danny. -Good morning. -I am Marlys.

-How do you do?

You've got your own kids, you've got three lovely children that you're

gonna bring this...

-Mutt.

-Mutt into...

-All five of us really wanted him.

I thought he was the most charming thing.

-Pretty much hooked?

-Yes. -Okay.

At first life in America was new and exciting for Izidor.

He went to school, played sports and experienced something he'd never had before,

a family that loved him.

But then things start to go wrong?

They start to go bad?

-I wasn't used to the family.

I didn't care for them.

They were not my family and they were nothing, I hated them.

All the bitterness I held it in and when I exploded I took it out on them because they

were the closest to me.

There are times where I was so out of hand the police had to come over.

-Did you have any clue why?

-I don't know, it didn't make sense to me.

I mean, I couldn't understand it.

-I think there were just some attachment issues as a result of, you know,

growing up without, you know, someone cuddling him and hugging him and loving on him.

-When a child grows and develops they need to be nurtured, cared and loved.

Without it they are mentally affected.

MORGAN: By the time Izidor turned 16 his rejection of his adoptive family

reached a boiling point.

He moved out of the house, severed all ties with them.

But then when he was 18, he learned that Marlys and his adoptive sisters were

in a serious car accident.

-I was so devastated and I was very scared that I was gonna lose them.

I had done so much damage in the family that I didn't think I was gonna be

accepted or even talked to.

They opened the door and I apologized from then.

-I remember, still to this day, he told us that he loved us.

And I'm not sure that we'd ever heard that.

-But that was a turn around for him.

-The beginning. -I wasn't willing to give up.

He's my son.

Whether he's my flesh and blood didn't matter.

I refused to give up.

-Once that I saw that they were able to forgive me, at that moment I made

like a covenant with myself.

I did not want to lose them again.

-Right, so now what?

-We're still doing the same thing.

We have five more children, we've adopted them.

-Gluttons for punishment huh?

And you, what are you doing?

-I'm advocating for several things because I definitely don't wanna see children,

not only in Romania, but anywhere in the world, to endure what we endured.

I think that the greatest gift of all was being adopted and be able to

have the best family.

I have to admit that.

I do realize that.

It took me a while, but...

-Now you do.

When I was a little boy I had all this.

Trees, grass, sound of birds.

I had a loving family.

It is heartbreaking to learn what Izidor and so many young Romanian children had

to live through.

Izidor himself was lucky.

He had his nursemaids and his adoptive parents.

Now he dedicates himself to helping other orphans, securing for them

something that was as vital to their wellbeing as food and shelter, love.

All of us need to receive love.

But giving love often requires sacrifice.

Many parents stop putting themselves first.

They sacrifice their careers, work second jobs or give up their social lives to

care for their children.

In some cases the sacrifices we make for love cause physical pain and leave

lasting scars.

I'm traveling to a remote region of Southern Ethiopia to visit a

village of the Hamar Tribe.

Anthropologist Dr. Samuel Tefera,

who has lived with the Hamar,

tells me they will be happy to show me the pain they endure for love.

Is this an village, tell me how old is it?

DR TEFERA: It has been here for two, three, four centuries.

-So they're pastoral?

-Yes, they have goats, they have cows, they have sheep.

-Cause I was gonna ask if I could get eggs Benedict here, but I guess not huh?

-Yeah, no. -Okay.

The Hamar in this village are all members of an extended family.

Those tight family bonds are vital to their survival in this dry and rugged land.

I hear this sort of joyous sound going on.

-We are about to witness an age-old ceremony.

Men of the Hamar jump over the bulls.

It's a right of transition from a childhood through adulthood.

-Oh, ok.

-And then that makes them eligible to marry.

-That makes them eligible to marry?

-Yeah.

MORGAN: The Hamar have invited us to witness their

traditional bull jumping ceremony.

Samuel tells me most of the days events aren't focused on the young man who's

coming of age, but on his female relatives.

MORGAN: A crucial part of the ceremony is the display of love the women make

for the young boy.

This is abuse.

(whip cracking)

MORGAN: The Hamar people have been holding coming of age ceremonies for

young men, here on the banks of the Omo River, for hundreds of years.

A central part of the event is his female relatives being whipped.

I've heard of other painful ritual practices often directed against women,

but something about this seems different.

-They choose? -They choose to do it yeah.

-Hard for me to fathom because I don't understand why the woman wants to get whipped.

MORGAN: Samuel explains that these women know the boys who are coming of age will make

sacrifices and face dangers herding cattle in Ethiopia's rugged landscape.

Being whipped is their way of declaring that they are willing to endure

hardship as well.

But this is all so shocking,

that I want to ask the women directly why they are doing this.

I've been watching for a good while and I see women getting whipped.

It seems painful and cruel.

Why do you do it?

(speaking in native language).

-For them to feel like it's jumping they have to be whipped.

-OK.

-And they cannot separate the two.

MORGAN: Fresh cuts laid down on top of old scars serve as proof of the

women's love for the bull jumper.

It's time now for him to show his bravery.

-These are the cattle. -These are the cattle.

-And a young man is gonna come and they will jump over a bunch of them?

-Yeah he's going to jump.

Very young.

-Yeah very young.

-OK, so they don't move?

-What happens if he falls?

MORGAN: The young men must run over the cattle at least four times to complete his

transition to adulthood.

The more runs he makes, the more of a man he is in the eyes of his extended family.

-This is number four.

-Yeah, he's coming back for number five.

-Now he has become a big man.

-How many cows could you jump over?

-I probably could make it over one, maybe.

The strength of the Hamar women is remarkable.

They manage to take something painful and turn it into something that empowers them.

The scars that they carry are like a signature on a contract that says,

"We are bound by love."

Strikes me that human society may not have made it without this kind of love between

siblings and parent and child.

It's the basic glue that holds humankind together.

The bonds of the family are cemented by this form of sacrificial love,

but they are also built on another type of love.

The passion that strikes two people.

Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet.

These romantic tales are the epitome of how we view love.

To paraphrase William Shakespeare, 'Love is a fire, sparkling in lovers eyes.'

But I wonder if romantic love alone is enough to sustain a marriage?

Only recently, and mostly only in developed countries,

has marriage based on passionate love between strangers replaced marriages

arranged by families as the norm.

I'm on my way to Hertfordshire, England to meet lawyer Hina Belitz whose

Pakistani heritage presented her with the choice between both forms of marriage.

How do you do?

HINA: Very well, thank you.

Come on, come, come on in.

-Tell me about your family background?

-Well, I was brought up in Andover in Hampshire, although I was actually born in Pakistan.

-So you grew up here in the UK?

-Yes.

It was completely all white, all English.

And so we grew up secluded from anyone of a similar cultural background to us.

-What about schooling?

Did you go to college?

-I did and I met someone at university.

-Were you married?

-Yes.

It was what you would conventionally call a love marriage.

It was all very idyllic for a short while.

-How short? -A year. -Yeah that's a shorty.

-Yeah I discovered that actually he'd been unfaithful.

-OK, so that means divorce?

-It did, yes.

So I threw myself into my career and I worked very hard and became

a successful attorney.

-Life in the city, as a single girl, was actually quite a lonely experience.

Even though I had so many friends I knew that there was something hollow and

empty and missing in my life.

And it wasn't very easy for me with the experience that I had been through to

easily just trust another.

And I had a sort of instinct that I knew I wouldn't find it just by bumping into someone

in the local supermarket.

-You had to have made some sort of change.

-I think that's absolutely right.

MORGAN: After a failed first marriage, Hina felt the urge to get reacquainted with her

Pakistani routes.

-I then had a very good job opportunity arise.

So I took that opportunity to take a break between jobs and take some proper time out.

So I decided to go to Pakistan and meet my Grandmother.

After a few days of arriving, I noticed that when we went out to a restaurant that a

strange man would appear and just be shuffled over to sit next to me.

And at first I was unsure as to what the reason was and then my Grandmother would sort

of come over and nudge me afterwards and say "What did you think of him?"

and I'm like "Oh it'd be nice if he could actually string a sentence together."

But, then the penny dropped quite quickly that my family were effectively trying to

introduce me to a possible suitable match, an arranged marriage.

-What was your thinking about the idea of arranged marriages?

-Well it was strange.

I felt very much that I was a Western woman, that had been brought up

in the UK and this was all just not for me.

This is not something...

-Kind of foreign?

-Yes it's foreign, it's a bit backward.

Why would I think about marrying someone in this way?

But that's OK, I'll humor you all for a bit, I'll sort of go along with it.

-How many persons do you think your Grandmother paraded before you?

-There were about four or five as I recall.

And then just as we were about to leave, it was probably the day before

there was another chap.

And he was very different, extremely charming, had a wonderful smile, good looking.

I noticed from across the room, my Grandmother looking at me.

She had these long, slim, dark eyes and she was looking at me then looking at him like this.

But what happened was I flew back to the UK and literally a day after

I arrived my Mother got a

phone call from my Grandmother who said "I'd like to propose a match,

a marriage match between Kameron and Hina.

Can you ask her if that's something that she would be interested

in proceeding with?"

On the one hand I thought dive in, jump off the cliff and have a go.

On the other hand I was thinking what's gone wrong with you

that you're considering this?

So there was conflict in my own mind because of course, I'd only met Kam

for about half an hour to an hour.

-Then what?

-Well I think I had a bit of an Epiphany when I was out there because I realized it

may be culturally different to something that I had been brought up around,

but maybe it wasn't a bad thing.

Maybe there was something that it had to offer.

I actually said yes I would like to proceed.

And I was thinking you're crazy.

MORGAN: Hina Belitz agreed to marry a man whom she had only met once, for half an hour.

-Yeah.

MORGAN: Who lived more than 4000 miles away from her home outside London.

She chose to trust the opinion of her Pakistani family, rather than simply rely on the

spark of passion.

-It was virtually no time at all that we were married, over the telephone,

via a telephone Nikah ceremony.

A Nikah ceremony is a wedding ceremony which is like the actual wedding,

since it's sort of at the point of commitment.

-So you're on a telephone... -On a telephone. -He's in Pakistan?

-Yes. -And you're here in the UK? -That's right.

-And you're married now? -We're technically married.

But, afterwards I went for a proper full ceremony in Pakistan.

-It worked out wonderfully.

I can honestly say I believe I've found my soul mate.

Would you like to meet him?

-Yeah of course.

Hello Kameron.

-Hi Morgan, nice to meet you.

-How are you? -I'm fine.

-So did you know you were being set up?

-No, not at all.

My Father, he said "Kameron what do you think about the girl you saw?"

and I said "Wow"

(laughter)

and I said I wish that she'll be my wife.

-So how long have you been together?

-15 years. -15 years. -Yeah.

We have an eight and a ten year old now.

Two beautiful sons.

-So maybe it's a good thing to have a family involved in such a momentous decision?

-I think you're right.

I think part of the reason why there are so many website dating applications is because

there isn't an easy access to people.

Is it really meant to just be chance that you meet someone, that you're meant to spend the

rest of your life with?

Do we really want to leave that purely to a chance meeting at a party?

-In Pakistan you always see arranged marriages and they last long.

They're a blessing from parents.

-I had a lot more confidence and trust because I knew that my family was involved and so

there was a lot more comfort that I had.

-OK.

So how wrong would I be if I said yours is not an arranged marriage?

Yours is a marriage by consent.

-The core of the difference is simply that when a marriage is arranged,

it is arranged because the objective is to introduce two people for the purposes of

getting married, rather than for the purposes of going out and having fun.

There are such things as forced marriages.

Anyone being compelled to marry someone they don't want to is completely wrong.

An arrangement should be by choice, ultimately.

-Do you think love has to be learned?

-There is something powerful about going into a relationship with clear

expectations on either side and clear hopes and desires on either side and not having

those aspects clouded by the more superficial feelings.

There's a possibility I think that that could lead to a longer term,

more lasting, more fulfilling relationship.

-You do look properly matched, to me.

I mean I can certainly see how it could come about between you two.

It looks right, feels right.

(sniffing)

Even smells right.

So long guys.

-Thank you.

-It never occurred to me that an arranged marriage could be the foundation of

a loving relationship.

Not to Hina either.

But, she and Kam have built upon the expectations placed on their match

by their families.

It built a bond that is founded on both passion and practicality.

-Bye! -Bye-bye.

-And they're raising a couple of wonderful boys.

Love has so many forms.

It's passionate, it's painful, it's nurtured.

Love binds people together, even when love is the last thing on their minds.

I'm meeting Army Major William Swenson, who received the Medal of Honor for

his bravery in Afghanistan.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Will Swenson was there for his brothers.

He was there for us all.

MORGAN: The story of how he risked his life for his brothers in arms is

a true story of love.

-Brothers in arms.

What does that term mean to you?

WILL: It's a term that's always defined our relationship to one

another in the military.

Friendship.

A family that's forged.

Whether it's basic training or whether it's an experience that was forged in war.

-Now you were in Afghanistan.

-That's correct.

We had US Army, US Air Force and the US Navy assets all participating in a joint

operation to help pacify a troubled part of our region.

We were all collectively working with respective Afghan partners.

Sergeant First Class Kenneth Westbrook and I were working with our Afghan border patrol.

Sergeant Westbrook was in effect my right hand man.

-Sergeant Westbrook is a friend of yours?

-We had not known each other prior to this deployment.

We got to know each other, very well.

I could rely on him.

We were very different in every way.

However, we ultimately saw that we had an objective, a goal and that we were gonna

get there, together.

MORGAN: On September 8th 2009, Major Swenson, Sergeant Westbrook and their Afghan

border patrol unit, were tasked with escorting a contingent from the Afghan

Army and the US Marines.

They were headed to a meeting of elders in the village of Ganjgal.

-But this was not a mission that intended on being combat.

We were there to support that operation.

-OK, so what happened?

-You pick your battles, but sometimes your battles pick you.

-The mission came under fire?

-That's correct.

We never entered the village before we were fired upon.

And it gradually escalated into a significant amount of direct, accurate, lethal fire.

MORGAN: Major William Swenson had set out on a mission to help Afghani soldiers broker a

peace deal with tribal elders in the village of Ganjgal.

All of a sudden the mission came under attack and they were surrounded

by as many as 60 insurgent fighters.

He and his entire unit were battling to save their own lives.

-We had received at least four of our first casualties within the first five minutes.

This battle extended over six hours.

-Six hours!

-And over these six hours we had a number of heroic acts that occurred

across that battlefield.

We were firmly committed to one goal, extracting our survivors,

recovering our wounded and dead and getting off that battlefield so that we could

come back and fight another day.

MORGAN: Major Swenson repeatedly entered the kill zone to rescue wounded and

fallen US and Afghani soldiers.

But he wasn't alone in his efforts.

-Sergeant First Class Westbrook was providing supporting fire, heroically,

and he was wounded.

And he called out to me "Will, I'm hit" and he didn't tell me how badly wounded he was.

He never indicated how significant his injuries were, but they were grave.

And I was watching him, just checking to make sure he was OK.

And he was.

And he provided covering fire for who knows how long, before he finally said "I'm losing

it, I need help over here" and I knew he was serious.

And I went over to him and he and I began to extract off the battlefield.

And he, on his own two feet, walked hundreds of yards.

Hundreds of yards through complex terrain.

Again, I had not at this point understood the severity of it.

We'll watch this together.

This helicopter crew was under fire at this time.

For them to land it, a helicopter full of fuel, in that area is testament to

their bravery as well.

-Who's that?

-This is me.

The dust you see is providing some level of protection from direct fire.

You can see here, that's Sergeant First Class Westbrook coming up.

The bullet had destroyed his shoulder.

Significant internal damage and bleeding.

At this point he'd lost so much blood that it was difficult for him

to maintain consciousness.

This is Sergeant First Class Westbrook walking, on his own two feet,

off that battle field after him doing his job.

At that point, told him he'd done his job, it's time to go home and I gave him

a kiss on the head.

-Your brother in arms, you gave a kiss on the head.

Would you agree it qualifies as love?

-It does qualify as love.

The people you serve with, the people you go to conflict with,

the people that you have an experience and that intensity, forges friendships.

It forges bonds.

It forges something that truly cannot be repeated anywhere else.

What happens on those battlefields, what happens amongst our service members in

those situations creates something that really cannot be described.

It can be seen.

It can be witnessed.

But it really has to be felt.

It's powerful and it extends beyond just the soldier, just that sailor, that marine,

it extends to even their families.

You feel like you've forged a new family, a new bond.

-So Sergeant Westbrook was rather severely wounded, but not mortally right?

What happened to him?

-Sergeant Westbrook had the opportunity to go home.

He didn't want to, he wanted to stay and keep fighting.

He got to go home, he got to see his family.

Unfortunately as a result of complications he passed away a month later.

Back in the United States, with his family by his side.

-So out of all of that, he died?

-This is war.

It's not fair.

He would have returned to that battlefield if he could have.

He would have returned right by my side and he and I would have continued our mission.

But he gave everything for what he loved.

For what he believed in.

And I take some solace in knowing that he got home.

-Yeah.

Tough talking about it isn't it.

Thank you.

The courage that Major Swenson showed on that fateful day is inspiring.

But, what strikes me most is that kiss and what it reveals.

It's not romantic, no.

It's a kiss of fellowship.

A profound bond with someone you have no blood ties with.

How can we ever have moved beyond small tribes without that bond?

Our cities, our entire nations could not exist...

without love.

Love has built our world.

But not everyone receives the love they need.

Around us there are people who are excluded, who feel invisible to the

rest of society.

Can we help bring them back simply by offering them love?

MORGAN: Across Europe and North America there are nearly five million homeless.

Some of us are moved to help these people through charity.

You could call charities, organizations built from love.

In the US 63 million volunteers donated eight billion hours to homelessness

and other causes in 2016.

But suffering persists all the same.

I wonder if there's a better way to show love to those in need?

I'm in London to meet Joshua Coombes.

He's a hairdresser and he believes small acts of love can make a big impact.

JOSHUA: How you doing?

-I'm doing good.

Good to see you.

-It's lovely to meet you, great to meet you.

-Yeah what uh...

-What am I doing with this stool?

-Yeah. -I'm gonna show you. -OK.

-So I'm gonna take you around Peckham.

MORGAN: Peckham was once one of London's most down trodden neighborhoods.

Today it's in transition.

On the same block you can find trendy coffee shops, street gangs and the homeless.

-I'm gonna talk to this guy, down here.

-OK.

-Just a sec.

MORGAN: Joshua hopes he can help the homeless, not by offering them money or food.

But by giving them a haircut.

-OK Stewart, when was the last time you had a haircut?

-In November last year.

-December, January, February.

-Five months ago.

-March, April.

How do you come to be homeless Stewart?

-I broke my hip and they stopped my benefits.

And at the time I was like, I was stupid and I was getting involved with

drugs and things.

I didn't really care and next thing I know, you know, they came round and said

"Right, you're out".

That was the 24th January 2016 and I've been homeless since.

It's another world on the streets.

You can't go home anymore.

And now you're alone.

-Well I came close once, in 1962.

Couldn't pay my rent and I had four roommates.

But I couldn't pay my rent for a couple of months and they said well you gotta go.

I had my duffel bag on my shoulder and thinking now where am I gonna go?

-Where abouts was that? -San Francisco. -San Francisco.

-Luckily I had friends.

Somebody who took me in.

-A lot of people look at you and think it's your fault you're there.

You deserve it.

You've done something wrong.

It wasn't my case, I mean it just built up.

-Mmm, how long you been doing this Josh?

-For a couple of years now.

-So what got you started?

-I think it was feeling a bit helpless really, if I'm honest.

Like it came from a feeling of helplessness.

Of how can I affect a problem that seemed so big?

How do I even begin to start, from that feeling of helplessness came like I had

to start with one person.

And just talking to one person, finding out about them,

I think that makes you feel empowered to make bigger changes.

-It's a bit more than giving a haircut or getting a haircut.

-Yeah.

Yeah exactly, right.

Just because we're not related, I feel like there's got to be that support for the

people who don't have that and, look I know a hair cuts not a big thing,

I know it's not gonna change somebody's world, but for me it's just a way of spending

time with someone.

It's a way of making someone hopefully feel like there's someone out there who cares.

You know, even if that is a stranger, right?

-Yeah.

-This is it, it's just coming off.

-I've got a chin under there I think.

Probably got two or three.

-OK are you ready to say goodbye to this mustache?

It's gone.

It's going, going gone.

-Well I must say Stewart, you look human.

-Oh thank you.

I must say, with you saying "Stewart", saying my name and talking to me

and I recognize your voice.

-Oh do you now?

Do you have a special sleeping place or do you whatever you?

-I do, yes, in Convent Garden.

-Ah OK.

-It's a doorway that I've slept in a few months now.

The security don't bother me.

-On the street, your day-to-day, what would you say love means to you?

-Usually it hits me, like the first person to say "Good morning" to me.

You know I'll be lying there, I'm just undoing my sleeping bag,

just climbing out and somebody walks past and says "Morning" and you're like whoa, lovely.

But when you don't hear a good morning from anybody, it's like nobody cares.

-Another big reason for doing this.

When people walk past and they see someone helping another person I

think it's infectious.

It ripples.

You know and I think that's part of this, to try and inspire other people.

So we've created a social media movement #dosomethingfornothing.

And people are using this hashtag in different places to perform good will acts.

You know, so it's not just about hairdressing.

-So Stewart, I'm thinking now what's got Josh here with you, is his sense

of love thy neighbor.

Do something for someone, for nothing.

What do you think about that?

-There'd be a lot more done.

-Wouldn't there.

Yeah.

-Yeah man and final touch.

We're ready.

I think you're ready.

-Yeah, there you are, bet you don't recognize this guy.

-I don't yeah.

-In five, four...

three, two, one,

Ta-dah!

-Jesus, I look 20 years younger!

-Yeah, Stewart what we said. -Nobody's gonna recognize me.

-Mate, you're a new man right now.

-Yeah, thank you.

-How do you feel? -Like a new man. -Like a new man.

-Do you recognize yourself there?

-Um, yes, I used to look like that once, when I was a lot younger.

-Alright, so what I want to say to the both of you is thank you very much.

-Thank you very much. -Thank you.

-Quite a new experience.

Someone like you walking around the city doing good stuff like that.

-Thank you, means a lot, really does.

-Thank you.

Stewart.

It's really terrific what Josh is doing.

-I'm gonna see you again soon.

-Thanks.

MORGAN: Joshua doesn't expect these small acts of kindness to end homelessness.

But he hopes the love he shows people will boost their self-esteem and may help them

rebuild their lives.

-Just imagine if each of us took five minutes out of your day to do something

loving for another person.

I don't care if it's a family member or your friend or a total stranger.

Imagine what a transformation it would make in this world.

*

Love is the most powerful force we know.

Back when we all lived in small tribes it kept our extended families together.

But it has grown into so much more than that.

Today, love can reach all the way around the world.

It is endlessly adaptable, surprising and healing.

It has the power to inspire us, to push our society forward.

I still believe love can change the world, like I did in 1967.

We just have to remember

there's nothing we can do that can't be done with love.

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