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

it seriously.

But eventually, he stopped thinking about it.

Being there for me became normal.

Then, somewhere along the way, I became the person he looked for too.

The promise was no longer what kept him there.

He Had Chosen Me Too

That realization removed the final weight from the story.

My mother had asked him to stay once.

Six years later, neither of us continue reading …