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

we laughed it off.

Sometimes we denied it too quickly.

Sometimes we changed the subject because neither of us knew exactly what to call what existed between us.

Whatever it was, it had grown slowly.

There had never been one dramatic moment when everything changed.

Instead, there were hundreds of smaller moments.

Waiting after school.

Walking home together.continue reading …