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NEW YORK -- An Arizona tourist who snapped a wildly popular photo of a New York City policeman helping a homeless man says she feels a kinship for the officer.

Jennifer Foster of Florence appeared with Officer Larry DePrimo on the "Today" show Friday.

Said Foster, a police dispatcher: "We decided we're best friends."

DePrimo said he found the whole experience "surreal and extremely humbling." He said he just knew he had to help the man.

Foster took a photo of DePrimo giving new boots to the barefoot homeless man in Times Square on a cold night. It went viral after it was posted on the NYPD's Facebook page on Tuesday.

Foster said her father, a Phoenix police officer for 32 years, had once done something similar.

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    Rassam wrote...
    What am I missing here?
    November 30, 2012 11:35 am
    Is it a really big deal for a human being to help another? Is it because a NY cop is rearly caught in the act of helping a homeless person? A quote from the article "her father, a Phoenix police officer, had once done something simular". Folks are out helping the homeless every day without going on the Today Show.
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    redinsight wrote...
    Yet
    November 30, 2012 11:46 am
    Another good deed parlayed into 15 minutes of fame. Maybe we should start a fund for the bus monitor...er...I mean police officer. ;)
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