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When Bill met Shelley: No disability could keep them apart
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-disability-could-keep-them-apart/?tid=pm_pop
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-disability-could-keep-them-apart/?tid=pm_pop
If youre that in love, age doesnt mean a thing. Even though my mind was young and my heart was young somewhere inside my head I was mentally old enough.
Bill Ott
You know that scene in Dirty Dancing where Baby meets Johnny for the first time? It was kind of like that.
Shelley Belgard
Bill Ott
You know that scene in Dirty Dancing where Baby meets Johnny for the first time? It was kind of like that.
Shelley Belgard
BILL OTT WILL always remember the moment he met Shelley Belgard. It was in spring 1988. He was 12 and sometimes shy. Into music, sports and, suddenly, girls.
Shelley was three years older, chatty and outgoing. Theyd both shown up at a Montgomery County social club looking for friends, fun and the kind of acceptance that seems so elusive during teen life.
Shelley smiled. Bill introduced himself. And that was it. I didnt know what love was, he says. Until I met her.
He was sure it was the real thing, but nobody ever believes that coming from a 12-year-old.
Certainly not one with Down syndrome...............