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

had worried that I did not know how it began.

She Was Afraid I Felt Indebted to Him

My mother feared that somewhere inside me, I might believe I owed Noah something.

Maybe I stayed because he had once stayed for me.

Maybe I defended him because I felt obligated.

Maybe I agreed to prom because six years of loyalty had created a debt neither of us knew how continue reading …