Jake’s fourteen now — healthy, happy, playing baseball again. Marcus still comes over every Sunday for dinner. Jake calls him Uncle Marcus. They built that model motorcycle together, and now they’re rebuilding a real one in my garage.
Marcus told me once that forgiveness isn’t something you earn — it’s something you live. Watching him with Jake, I finally understand what he meant.
He didn’t just save my boy’s life that day on the street. He saved something inside all of us — faith, hope, and the belief that people can choose to turn pain into purpose.
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