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Custodian Becomes Teacher After 23 Years in Heartwarming Reveal

A group of people, including children and adults, cheer for Mr. Bailey with signs and pom-poms.

A video from the popular show on ABC, 'Good Morning America,' is warming hearts around America. It is a big reveal video where the show's host reveals to the man that his 20-year long dream is about to come true.

American journalist and T.V. personality T.J. Holmes is seen in this video, standing in the dark in the early morning hours with friends and family of Tylan Bailey. He explains that he woke up Tylan earlier, blindfolded him, and revealed a big surprise.

Tylan, with his blindfold still on, is then taken from the car, and his blindfold is taken off. He sees his family, friends, and colleagues holding placards and screaming his name. Then T.J. shows us a video testimonial of Tylan.

The video starts off with teachers giving loving testimonials about Tylan's decades of service at the school. He had been working as a custodian, but it seems that he was much more than that.

'He is an integral part of our school family. He is the first to come every morning, and he never stops working,' one teacher says in the video. Tylan is no stranger to hard work, and his son also testifies toward this fact.

'At one time, he was working four jobs at once. He was throwing newspapers in the morning from two oçlock to like four-thirty.' His son states in the video but Tylan also had a life-long dream.

He always dreamed of becoming an educator, and in this video, his dream is about to come true. This feel-good video makes the viewer proud to be American, and one viewer summed it up perfectly well. 'This is what America is all about. Don't ever give up on your dream. This man is a great role model!'