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

When he became impossible and withdrawn, I stayed.

The relationship had stopped being one-sided years earlier.

No One Was Saving Anyone

That was the part my mother had finally understood.

Noah was not my rescuer.

I was not his responsibility.

We were not two damaged people trapped together by a childhood agreement.

We were simply two people who had repeatedly continue reading …