In my own journey of redemption I was concerned about how people viewed me and what they thought of me as a convicted felon.

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As for Rodney King himself, he got engaged to one of the jurors from his trial and published a book in 2012 titled The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption.

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Halo Reach and Red Dead Redemption were two of my personal favorites, from a gameplay perspective especially.

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What really caught my eye was that the world was going to be bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto IV combined.

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"These are special experiences, the kinds of things that I would never in my life be able to afford to pay for, but miles give me the opportunity for that dream redemption, " said Gary Leff, based in Arlington, Virginia.

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