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

that would change the way I understood the last six years of my life.

Noah Had Been Part of My Life for Years

By the time we were eighteen, Noah and I had become almost impossible to explain to people who had not known us for a long time.

He was my best friend.

He was the person who knew when I was pretending to be fine.

He was the one who could sit beside continue reading …