Sunday, June 21, 2009 Everyday Heroes
"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at."
— Laurence Sterne

A Twelve Year Old's Forgiveness

A Twelve Year Old's Forgiveness
The 12-year-old boy paralyzed by a robber's stray bullet as he was taking a piano lesson in Oakland last year had a message for the gunman Tuesday:"I forgive you." Christopher Rodriguez delivered his words after rolling in his wheelchair to the front of the Oakland courtroom where Jared Adams, 26, had just been sentenced to 70 years to life in prison. Then he shook the convicted man's hand. "I don't know where that came from," Christopher's mother, Jennifer Rodriguez, said later. "We didn't talk about it or plan it. It came from within himself."

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