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Inmate: Why did you hug the boy who shot you? Jackie: I'm a mother. Mothers love.


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"Because I Am Jackie Millar"
Because I Am Jackie Millar
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Who is Jackie Millar?

Jackie Millar in 1995
Jackie Millar in 1995
Jackie Millar is a survivor. She is an advocate of restorative justice. Jackie dedicates her life to speaking to juveniles, adult inmates, university students, law enforcement officials, women's groups, law students, church assemblies, rehabilitation workers, and many other diverse groups. She tells her story - the story of a crime, her rehabilitation as a result of the traumatic brain injury sustained from the bullet wound in her head, and perhaps most surprisingly, her forgiveness, and love. She talks about choices. She reaches a wide audience, and she touches many people's lives.

 

Shot in head and left to die, Jackie miraculously survived, although now she is legally blind, is paralyzed on one side of her body, lives with intense pain and seizures, and knows that the bullet fragments that remain embedded in her brain can shift at any time, taking their ultimate toll on her.  She was in a coma for 42 days, and spent nearly a year in intensive rehabilitation - learning to talk, to eat, to swallow, to walk - things that most of us take for granted.

The violent, random crime that forever changed her life - and the lives of so many others - is detailed in Jackie's autobiographical work "Because I Am Jackie Millar," co-written with Judith Gwinn Adrian. The book is now available for purchase through Mike Stults, publisher and longtime friend.