Marvin Jones started writing letters to the students who had bullied him in high school — and found an unexpected friend.
If you ask Marvin Jones, 75, it's amazing that he's back at his old high school at all, let alone with a limousine, marching band and red carpet.
"On the bus, students would bring KKK flyers," Jones recalled."When I would come down the hall, they would close their nose and say 'Here comes a skunk.' I felt as if I had leprosy." Even decades later, the memories haunted Jones. One day, to try to heal, Jones decided to put pen to paper and write letters to the very students who had tormented him. In one letter, Jones said he left the school"very bitter" because of how he was"verbally abused on a daily basis." He wrote 90 such letters, pouring his pain and heart out whether his former classmates wanted to hear it or not. Most didn't, but one letter he mailed struck a different tone.
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