At 6, I Promised My Best Friend with Down Syndrome We’d Go to Prom Together – 12 Years Later, Mom…

Carrying their shoes when their feet hurt.

Letting them carry your jacket when you’re tired.

Laughing when the dance goes wrong.

And choosing, again and again, not to disappear when life becomes difficult.

When someone truly matters to you, you stay.

And sometimes, if you’re lucky enough, they stay too.

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