Whirligigs to Bildungsroman and Everything in Between

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There are those of who will never forgive ourselves for the mistakes we have done, but some of us find our own self-forgiveness in our different ways. We may seek therapy, play musical instruments, or drive for hours at a time. Just to find a way to release the burden we have caged up inside of us. Brent Bishop though was given a task and from that task he was given he found the self-forgiveness we all strive to achieve. Brent was suffering with the fact that he killed a girl who brightened the world with her personality. He did not mean to kill her though; he wanted to commit suicide. He was on a breaking point of life and wanted to end it, but instead he stopped the budding of a girl who was just beginning to blossom in the world. When Brent’s arbitration day came he had no idea what to expect. He knew he could never repay the family he had broken from killing Lea Zamora. Lea’s mother was the only family member who attended the arbitration meeting; Mrs. Zamora did not believe in retribution, but she did have one peculiar request of Brent Bishop. She wanted him to go to each corne...

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