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Nate Weatherall: My Hero
As news sank in, my life started to fall apart like shattered glass but I managed to repair. A young 36 year old man that focuses on what he needs to do named Nate Weatherall . Nate takes care of what has to get done and also provides for his family when they need something. Nate Weatherall, my father, also my Michigan hero, always told me to never tell myself I can't do something I can do . To begin with my hero grew up in a good but also a bad community. The school that he went to the kids in his grade didn't want to pay attention in class. The kids kept distracting him, even tried to lie on him telling the teachers or adults things that he didn't do. On some days after he gets home and finishes his homework he likes to go to the park. When he did go the kids there always liked to fight with each other for some reason, most of them were all friends at some point. The kids that he plays with on the park always liked to pick on him because he was small or they were bigger than him. But Nate always found his way to just walk away from those …show more content…
Therefore when Nate’s father wasn’t around or Nate and his sisters was gone. Nate had to protect his sisters from bad things, or bad people that would try to pick with them. Even when they were in school Bigger kids would try to pick with them because they were also small like there mother. When his sisters and he were at school and bigger kids would try to pick with them my dad would tell them to just ignore them and focus on their work. My hero would also make sure they were on task and were getting good grades because he was the oldest, but he would also try to compete with them and see if they could get better grades than him. Nate always wanted him and his sisters to do the right thing in school and out. Nate was a great kid always took care of his little sisters and protected them when his father wasn’t home or

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