Patricia And Graham Jacobson: My Hero

A hero in my opinion is someone who is courageous and strong. There are many people that fit my definition of what a hero is, but there is one person in particular I want to talk about. My grandma is my hero because of what she endured at the age of 4. Not every person goes through what she experienced, which is every mother’s nightmare. In 1962, Patricia and Graham Jacobson welcomed a baby girl to the world and they named her Cynthia. Little did they know that the baby they were holding would go through a tragic event that almost take her life. Nearly 4 years later it was there in Sacramento, California where Cynthia Jacobson would earn her title as a hero.
It all started on September 13th when Patricia and Graham Jacobson decided to go out for that evening. Before going out the couple dropped their 4-year-old daughter Cynthia off at a babysitter’s house. Once she was settled the couple left not knowing the horrors to come later that night.
On this night, Cynthia missed her mom and dad as every child would. She did not like this babysitter therefore taking this matter into her own hands. She waited until she knew her babysitter fell asleep. Earlier that day the woman who was babysitting her had had a window cleaner stop by. Coincidentally, the man who had cleaned her windows that day had left his ladder, which was placed in front of the second story window.
Once Cynthia new for sure that her babysitter was asleep she had made her way to the second window where she knew there was a ladder. After getting the window open she climbed down the