Heroic deed: Morgan and Dhinesware looking at an old article on his lifesaving feat during the tsunami in 2004. With them is Ratha.
WHILE many children have fictional characters as their heroes, eight-year-old M. Dhinesware Mariappan has a real life hero — her very own appa (father).
Dhinesware, who is entering Year Three next year, hopes to someday be as brave as her father R. Morgan Mariappan, 51.
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