When the Star Quarterback Asked My Daughter With Down Syndrome to Prom, I Feared the Worst—What Happened Next Left the Whole School in Tears

embarrass herself.

“Do you think Steven really likes me?” she asked one night.

The hope in her voice nearly broke me.

“I think,” I said carefully, “that he seems like a very nice young man.”

She smiled so brightly that I couldn’t bear to say anything else.

Prom night arrived.

Rosie looked beautiful.

Not beautiful “for a girl with Down syndrome.”

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