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Charles Ramsey, who helped rescue the three Cleveland women held captive by Ariel Castro, will get free McDonald's from his local fast food favorite for the next year, a McDonald's spokeswoman said.

The big burger gift comes after Ramsey repeated, in interview after interview, that he had gone to McDonald's before rescuing the women and rushed to their aid carrying a "half-eaten Big Mac."

The fast food company also donated $10,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the names of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight, the three women who were held hostage for years.

Thousands of people took to Twitter in the days after the rescue, urging McDonald's (MCD, Fortune 500) to respond to Ramsey's Big Mac close-up.
"Free burgers for life!" one man tweeted. "It was the best advert you could get -- Heroes eat Big Macs," another wrote." Others called for him to star in a commercial and become the next Ronald McDonald.http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/23/news/companies/mcdonalds-charles-ramsey/index.html?sr=fb052413mcdonaldsramsey10p