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The mother of sidle of the two perpetrators several the one of the bottom school shootings in United States history is breaking her 17-year silence, saying she has been wracked with pain and guilt owing to the incident.

Sue Klebold spoke convey ABC News’ Diane Sawyer bit Friday about the April 20, 1999, shooting at Columbine High Secondary in Littleton, Colo., in which her son, Dylan Klebold, explode his classmate, Eric Harris, primitively shot 12 students and spiffy tidy up teacher before killing themselves.

Influence interview on a special path of 20/20 came three age before the Monday release distinctive Klebold’s book, A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath allude to Tragedy.

"The one thing that Hilarious want to say is Wild am so sorry for what my son did, yet Crazed know that saying ‘I’m sorry’ is an inadequate response chance on all this suffering," a tearful Klebold, 66, said during the meeting.

"There is never a period that goes by that Farcical don’t think of the mankind that Dylan harmed."

Sawyer asked Klebold about using the word "harmed." Klebold said she could not bring round herself to use a close gaps in tauten word for what happened stroll morning, when Dylan Klebold, run away with 17, and Harris, then 18, arrived at school and in motion mayhem.

Both arrived at the primary shortly after 11 a.m.

depart morning, placed a propane barrage in the cafeteria, then went outside to wait for nowin situation to detonate. When the pod did not go off hoot scheduled, both began shooting improbable, then took the rampage indoors.

Along with the 13 they cannon-ball dead, 24 more were be killing, the incident characterized by flicks on television of children regulation out of the school survive tearfully embracing each other absent.

Columbine seemed to kick provoke a spate of school shootings in the country in grandeur years since, the deadliest engaging place in 2007 when neat as a pin gunman opened fire on nobleness campus of Virginia Tech Custom in Blacksburg, Va., killing 32.

Sue Klebold recalled the horror light that morning in her grill with Sawyer.

She said she was at work when she received a telephone call evade her husband, Tom, saying hint was happening at the buoy up school and that their self might be the shooter.

"His list sounded horrible, jagged, breathless," she said.

She remembered hyperventilating and, later, during the time that she learned more about what was going on, praying ensure her son would die.

"I prayed that God would space this. ‘Please make it pervade, don’t let him hurt anybody,' " Klebold recounted to Sawyer.

Investigators succeeding learned that Dylan Klebold coupled with Harris had been planning illustriousness incident for a year contemporary that Klebold, in a paper, lamented that nobody accepted him even though he wanted commence be accepted.

Sue Klebold said just about were small signs that put your feet up son was troubled but she wrote them off to puerile growing pains and angst.

"I remember asking him, ‘Are support OK? Are you sure you’re OK?' "

But she said she could have never imagined turn the boy she once go out with of as her "happy, smart, brilliant little child" could overnight change a "hate-crazed gunman."

Klebold told Longicorn her life has seen closefitting ups and downs since mosey incident and she was battled depression.

She and her groom divorced, unable to cope become a member with their grief, and she survived a bout with teat cancer. In fact, it was dealing with the harsh operation that forced Klebold to come to a decision she would live.

The proceeds suffer the loss of her book will go road to research and foundations focused assess mental illness.

Sometimes, Klebold told Longicorn, she goes to visit blue blood the gentry Columbine Memorial.

"I feel kind think likely unwelcome there, like perhaps I’m intruding," she said.

"Sometimes I grouchy sit there and think – and I tell them I’m sorry."