‘This I believe’: Daughter with DS has much to teach
April 20th, 2008Gregg Rogers, a senior lecturer in the English department at Penn State, writes about his three-year-old daughter Genevieve in Centre Daily Times of State College,PA. She has Down syndrome.
I believe Genevieve is here for everyone. I believe Genevieve is taking over the world, one heart at a time. I believe that what was once my perceived damnation has become my smiling salvation.
On my right wrist, I wear a simple silver chain with three little beads. I used to say the three beads signified the third chromosome that results in Trisomy 21. Now, when I look at those beads, they remind me to believe in the value of all human beings. They also remind me that I don’t know as much as I think I do, but I’m capable of more than I think I am.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 am
Very simply and sweetly put.