Former President Jimmy Carter shared a special friendship with Mattie Stepanek, a terminally ill boy and poet who asked the Make-A-Wish Foundation for a chance to speak to him about peace.

Mattie Stepanek met his hero — Carter — face to face for the first time live on “Good Morning America.” While this was a surprise for Mattie, it was not the first time they had spoken.

"If it hadn't been for Jimmy Carter, I think my son would have given up," Jeni Stepanek tells PEOPLE of her son, Mattie, who died in 2004 at the age of 13 Elissa Rosen is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Jeni Stepanek, the mother of young poet and peacemaker Mattie Stepanek, knew former President Jimmy Carter as few did — as a neighbor and friend. Carter died at the age of 100 on Sunday.

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