My Best Friend Spent Years Caring for My Sister with Down Syndrome – Then He Said a Few Words That Changed Everything I Thought I Knew

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By the time I was seventeen, I had started imagining a future with Ben.

Never out loud.

Just quiet daydreams of him, me, and Rosie, our lives happily intertwined, while I did my homework or brushed my hair before bed.

I had started imagining a future with Ben.

I thought he saw it too.

The way he lingered on our porch.

The way he laughed at things Rosie said that only I would find funny.

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