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

because Noah had promised my mother something six years earlier.

I was not wearing that dress because I owed him gratitude.

I was not going to prom because he had once helped me survive one of the hardest years of my childhood.

I went because I wanted to stand beside him.

And He Was There Because He Chose Me

That was the truth beneath the secret.

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