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‘I Have Forgiven You': Columbine Survivor Posts Message to Shooter's Mom

"Bitterness is like swallowing a poison pill and expecting the other person to die"

Anne Marie Hochhalter's life was forever altered when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at Columbine High School in 1999.

She was paralyzed in the shooting and has had a long, difficult road to recovery. But her message now is one of forgiveness.

"I have forgiven you and wish you only the best," Hochhalter wrote in a Facebook post directed to Klebold's mother, Sue, who sent Hochhalter a letter while she was recovering in the hospital.

It comes the day before Sue Klebold's first television interview since the shooting and the release of her new book, "A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy." [[368643561, C]]

CorrectionAn earlier version of this story misidentified Harris’s first name.

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