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 was Noah.

He always knew.

He Asked Whether I Was Okay

I almost laughed.

Six years earlier, he had asked my mother whether I was broken.

Now he was standing downstairs asking whether I was okay.

I walked toward him.

I looked at the corsage.

Then I looked at the boy who had spent half his life beside me.

I Asked Him About the Promise

Noah went completely continue reading …