Forgiveness

In this story a guy named Eric Smallridge was drunk and driving and hit a car where 20 year old Lisa and Megan were killing them both instantly. They gave him 22 years in prison and Megan’s mom Renee thought it was a good sentence for killing her daughter. A couple years later Renee went to speak to the judge to ask to cut Eric’s sentence in half giving him only 11 years in prison. Everyone was shocked but she said that he was truly sorry for what he caused. The judge accepted and later on Eric apologized to both Megan and Lisa’s parents. She later said that she forgave him because to her that’s the only way to heal and if she didn’t forgive him she was going to grow old, angry, and bitter and she didn’t want that so she decided to forgive him. Now Eric has apologized to both parents of Lisa and Megan in person and has started to go to different schools with Renee talking about the bad things of drinking and driving. He is out and free and so is she just because of one word.