A N.Y. 7th Grader Uses His Allowance to Buy His Buddy New Shoes After He Was Mocked by Bullies.

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Early, 12, bought his friend Melvin Anderson, also 12, a pair of shoes

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The students at Buffalo Creek Academy Charter School in Buffalo

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N.Y., are both 7th graders. Mello became fed up with watching his friend get ridiculed over his shoes

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He then gave them to him the next day at school. "I was totally shocked

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Said Melvin, who says he was "grateful" for the gesture

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Melvin placed his new shoes on the desk of Bryant Brown Jr

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Dean of Culture at Buffalo Creek Academy. Brown shared Mello's kind gesture with the world

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This is what I live for, to be that helping hand," he wrote on Facebook

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I was picked on because of my height, that's just how it is," said the boy, who goes by the nickname Melo

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