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

leaving is easy and staying is sometimes the harder, kinder choice.

We stayed through grief.

We stayed through anger.

We stayed through growing up.

And when prom night arrived, we stayed because we wanted to.

The Secret Did Not Change Who We Were

It only explained where we started.

The rest belonged to us.

My father leaving had once taught me how quickly someone continue reading …