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November 28, 2012
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Loving a Child With Down Syndrome: Far From the Tree Doesn't Do It Justice
If you'd told me five years ago that I was soon to bear a disabled child with blood cancer-for whom I'd have to surrender, possibly forever, career and love life-I'd have contemplated suicide. Moreover, I would have thought this a level-headed response: not an act of despair but a lucid...