Susan Klebold is the mother of Columbine High School killer Dylan Klebold. In November 2009, Klebold's essay on her experiences of being the mom of a teen accused of the Columbine massacre was published in O, The Oprah Magazine. The magazine hits newstands on Tuesday, October 20, 2009.http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8799073
In the essay entitled "I Will Never Know Why" Mrs. Klebold wrote that she didn't know her son was depressed and had "no inkling" about his plans with Eric Harris to gun down classmates at Columbine.http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8799073
Susan Klebold Essay Excerpts
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused. I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family, and about love."http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8799073
"Dylan's participation in the massacre was impossible for me to accept until I began to connect it to his own death. Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the intention of dying there. And so in order to understand what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I could about suicide."http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8799073
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Susan Klebold is Columbine High shooter Dylan Klebold's mother -
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She wrote an essay for O magazine and spoke of the massacre
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Essay will appear in the November 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and one teacher at Columbine in April 1999
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Both teens then commited suicide
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Susan Klebold is the first parent of the teens to speak publicly about the incident
