“We just found out our baby, a girl, has Down syndrome via our amniocentesis appointment. We know you have a sister with Down syndrome.
We’re calling you because you are the closest friend we have who truly knows someone with Down syndrome. What do we need to know?” This was a call my husband and I made to a family friend in December of 1999.
Our friend’s sister, Amy, was younger than he was. And she had spent her younger years at Willowbrook, a horrible institution for people with disabilities in New York that was exposed to the world by a young reporter named Geraldo Rivera in 1972.
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