What I want is to connect with friends my age and spend time with them outside of school. I’d like a best friend. You know someone to hang out with, share secrets or talk about the cute boy in our class. I have adults, besides my parents, who like and care about me, but they’re not all connected. Mom and…
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My journey began in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, where my mother was living in 1995. She had a fleeting thought: “If I ever have a baby, I’d like to give birth here.” Hmmm? Could they ever have imagined me… a beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed girl whose streak of independence would challenge them to the max? Perhaps but I don’t think they had a…
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Our daughter, Bethany, who has Down Syndrome, lived with her family for nineteen of her twenty-five years. This family included myself (her mother Julia), her Dad Don, and her two older brothers, Josh and Joe. I was not at all ready to part with her when Bethany announced that she wanted to leave home and live with “friends”. But she…
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Cathy is a quiet and caring individual, who loves children and likes to help others. She likes to be busy and likes to do activities with her friends, including coffee dates. Cathy spends some of her time baking and making crafts when she is not swimming, dancing, bowling, going to movies or going to the gym.
Cathy lives and works…
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