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Jeanne Bishop's Speech Analysis
Today Jeanne Bishop gave a talk about how she made peace with the man who killed her sister. Throughout this presentation Jeanne talked about how forgiving him was for her and that she wanted to let go and let God take control of the situation. She also said how eventually she made the first move and wrote him an apology letter while he was in prison, for telling everyone but him that she had forgiven him. Our class is also advocating for prison reform and writing to prisoners to learn their story, hear what they think of the prison systems, see how they are doing and much more. Jeanne Bishop is advocating for, “mercy for people convicted of serious crimes.” Bishop said that she is still writing to him now and says that her sister’s killer
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