Thirteen year old Nickolaus Dent, the hero who I read about, has contributed to the world by being his mother's primary caregiver while she has been battling HIV for quite a long time. Dent helping out his mother makes him a hero because in a world where many mothers care for their children themselves, Dent is doing the total opposite by helping out his own mother and doing everything mothers usually do for their kids. Dent's mother, Janine Helms, is also the only parent Dent has as well since his father died two years prior before Nickolaus became Janine's caregiver and while Nickolaus is only thirteen years old, he is already learning how parenthood is like before he was a parent himself. When I read Nickolaus Dent's story, I was shocked to see how sad his
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