At Prom, Only One Boy Asked Me to Dance Because I Was in a Wheelchair — 30 Years Later, Our Paths Crossed Again, and This Time He Was the One in Need

Then longer ones without them. I learned how quickly people confuse survival with healing.

College took me longer than everyone else I knew. I also learned how badly most buildings fail the people inside them. I studied design because I was angry, and anger turned out to be useful. I worked through school. Took drafting jobs nobody wanted. Fought my continue reading …