From Cape Cod Today, an excerpt from Little People: A Father Reflects on His Daughter’s Dwarfism–and What It Means to Be Different, by journalist Dan Kennedy. The author is re-releasing the book in installments on the internet.

From the first chapter:

FROM ALMOST THE moment we were told that our beautiful new daughter was a dwarf, I’ve been on something of a quest–a quest to find meaning and purpose in Becky’s having a life-altering genetic difference. I don’t want to suggest that I’ve been looking for meaning in her life. That’s a given. I’ve always believed that she has the same potential, the same opportunities, the same chance to succeed or fail, to be happy or sad, as anyone else. But I wanted more. I wanted to know why she was different–or, to be more accurate, why her particular difference was so much more obvious than those that affect most of us. And I wanted the answer to that question to be positive, uplifting, life-affirming …

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