Every Senior’s Sibling Was Asked to Make Them a Prom Gift-I Worried About My Brother with Down Syndrome Until I Saw What He Had Created

I told him.

“That’s not great.”

“Thank you.”

After a pause, he asked, “Are you still smart?”

“I don’t know.”

“That’s dumb. You were smart yesterday.”

I looked at the 2 halves of the wooden ruler on my desk.

“Come home Saturday,” he added.

I did.

The box now sits on a shelf above my desk. The sparrow reminds me who I was before I started measuring myself. The continue reading …