When my mother was pregnant with me, the doctors spoke gently, but their words carried a weight that would follow my father for years:
“Michael has Down syndrome. He won’t be able to raise a child. It’s too much. Too complicated. Too demanding.”
They said it as if it were a fact. As if they were reading from a book where my life—and his—had already been written.
But they didn’t know my father.
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