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

he was supposed to?

My Mother Said That Was Exactly Why She Had Locked the Door

For years, she had worried about the same thing.

She had watched me defend Noah.

She had watched me wait for him.

She had watched me rearrange plans because he needed me.

She had seen our friendship become something far larger than the childhood promise that started it.

And she continue reading …