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Victim Voices: Bob and Ruth Hessman

December 2, 2008

“Four years before he was executed, we began to correspond with Gregg Braun who killed our daughter, Mary. At first, he was belligerent with us; but later he began to release his bitterness, eventually expressing regret and apologized for killing her. We didn’t find forgiveness just by saying, ‘We forgive’ and moving on. We found we needed to start each day with a prayer of forgiveness for Gregg. Pleasure comes to us now from watching our children and our grandchildren as they learn to follow us on the journey of forgiveness. For if we are to believe we can be forgiven, we must be able to forgive.”

-Bob and Ruth Hessman

Dodge City, KS

 

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