Preaching Power of Forgiveness ; Paralyzed Detective Talks to Students

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Sitting in his electronic wheelchair, a ventilator tube jutting from his neck, Steven McDonald spoke softly before a high school audience about a summer day 18 years ago that changed his life.

"I was shot in the head and the throat. Then the man who shot me stood over me and shot me a third time," he said, speaking haltingly as the man beside him held a microphone to McDonald's lips. "It was scary. I was dying and I didn't want to die."

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Preaching Power of Forgiveness ; Paralyzed Detective Talks to Students

Then, in the same soft tone, McDonald surprised his audience.

"I forgave the man who shot me," he said.

The now-famous New York police detective has taken his a...

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