Looking for love
July 14th, 2008
From The Detroit Free Press:
Shannon Wiltse was raised to be fiercely independent after she was born with partial limbs, but she longed for a relationship and found the answer on the internet. Wiltse, a genetics counselor, says she felt discouraged by the way men reacted to her disability so she didn’t reveal her condition to Allen DeWall until six weeks after they began chatting online.
“You need to know,” Shannon told Allen, “that I’m missing everything from the knees down, on both legs, and on my left arm from the elbow down, and on my right hand I have one digit, just one finger.”
Allen remembers thinking, “What am I getting myself into?”
But he did not say “Let’s just be friends.”
He said, “So what?”
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