The North Myrtle Beach community worked together to change one man and his dog's life. Together, they got the duo, Brad and his dog Dragon, off the streets in just three weeks.
After Brad's wife died from cancer, he said he fell into a deep depression and lost everything.
Just last month, the pair was homeless.
However, with the love and support from the local community, Brad and Dragon now have a place to call home.
Three weeks ago, Julie Page was shopping at Publix in North Myrtle Beach.
"The cashier had mentioned that there was a gentleman out front with his dog, and he needed some help," Page recalled.
This was the first time she met Brad and his dog.
"At that time, I was pretty down," Brad said. "I didn't know what I was going to do or where I was going to go or what we were going to eat that night. She walked up to me and says, 'is there any way I can help [you],' and that's when it started."
Page gathered a bag of basic necessities for the two. What she didn't know was there were other people in the community who had the same goal of helping Brad and Dragon.
"We had a saying; we were team Brad and Dragon," Page said.
Julie Hamlin, the manager at the Bagel Factory in North Myrtle Beach, makes sure Brad and Dragon have a hot breakfast each morning.
"If I'm off work, my girls that work here, I ask them, 'well did Dragon and Brad come by?' Or they'll call me and tell me and say, 'Dragon came by, he got his bacon, Julie, don't worry about it,'" Hamlin said.
Other local businesses pitched in too, to pay for their breakfasts, and give free haircuts to Brad and Dragon.
Then together, they organized a donation drop-off at the Bagel Factory.
"We had 50 people that day just come drop off tents and clothing and just people donating to the GoFundMe," Page said.
They raised $2,000 on GoFundMe. Brad and Dragon are now using that money to rent a room and pay for a cell phone.
"It was beautiful to know that someone actually cared, and they didn't even know me, or the dog," Brad said.
Now, their next step is finding Brad a job. He said he would love to work in a kitchen or restaurant.
Brad told us that after he finds a job, he also wants to give back to others who are experiencing homelessness.
He said he knows how hard it was for him, and he wants to return the kindness the community has shown to him.
Julie Page has been doing outreach for over 20 years, and although she recently retired from work, she said kindness is never a job to retire from.
"You never know what tomorrow is going to bring, and in Brad's case, tomorrow brought better days," she said. "It's all uphill from now."