My 13-Year-Old Son Gave Up His Most Treasured Guitar to Buy a Wheelchair for a Girl at School. The Following Morning, Two PoliceMy 13-Year-Old Son Gave Up His Most Treasured Guitar to Buy a Wheelchair for a Girl at School. The Following Morning, Two Police Officers Knocked on Our Door and Told Me Something About His Actions That Left Me Stunned. My thirteen-year-old son, Julian, secretly sold the electric guitar he treasured most to help a girl in his class get a replacement for her damaged wheelchair. I was still trying to take in his incredible decision when two police officers arrived at our front door at seven o'clock the very next morning. "Mrs. Vance, we need to speak with you about your son." Without thinking, I took Julian's hand. "Has he done something wrong?" One officer glanced in his direction. "Something happened yesterday that you haven't been told about." All the color drained from Julian's face. For a brief second, I began to fear there was more to his decision to sell the guitar than he'd shared with me. Julian had cherished his customized Fender Stratocaster from the moment his father and I surprised him with it on his birthday. It had taken us several months of putting money aside to purchase it. He picked it up to play every single day, occasionally spending hours repeating one melody until he was satisfied with every sound. That's why I immediately felt something was wrong when I walked into his room with a pile of clean laundry and saw that his guitar stand was empty. After he came home from school, I questioned him about its whereabouts. He stared down at the floor. "Mom... I sold it." The clothes nearly slipped from my arms. "You sold your guitar? Why?" "Maya needed a new wheelchair." Maya was a kindhearted eighth-grade classmate of Julian's who had depended on a wheelchair for years. According to Julian, the one she had been using was in terrible condition. Its wheels constantly locked up, the seat had deteriorated, and