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

for me.

In reality, neither of us had been carrying the other.

Sometimes Noah leaned on me.

Sometimes I leaned on him.

Sometimes we were both struggling and simply sat beside each other until things felt less impossible.

No One Had Fixed Anyone

Noah had been right when he was twelve.

He did not know how to fix people.

Neither did I.

That was probably why our continue reading …