At 6, I Promised My Best Friend with Down Syndrome We’d Go to Prom Together – 12 Years Later, Mom Said I Could Go with Him Only on One Condition

was no dramatic vow.

Noah did not make a speech.

He simply said “okay.”

According to my mother, he said it as if she had asked him to carry a book to class.

Something ordinary.

Something obvious.

Something he intended to do.

And Then He Kept Doing It

Suddenly, memories from the following years rearranged themselves in my mind.

Noah appearing beside me at lunch continue reading …