Someone I love relies on me in ways you will never understand.
Someone I love endures pain and challenges that break my heart and renew my spirit at the same time.
Someone I love is unable to advocate for themselves for things that most of us take fot granted.
Someone I love will never have the opportunities that every child should have.
Someone I love will need unconditional love and support after I am gone - this frightens me to the core.
Someone I love encounters pity, stereo-typing responses, and prejudice at every turn, because they look, act and / or learn differently than others.
Someone I love has needs that require me to allow "out-siders" to have the power and in-put in areas that should be mine alone to meet.
Someone I love will continue to look at me for everything in life long after other children are able to assume a place as part of the world.
Someone I love has needs that require more time and energy that I have to give.
Someone I love has needs that mean I am not able to meet basic needs of my own.
Someone I love has needs that have become the driving force behind every decisions my family makes.
Someone I love has changed me in ways I will never be able to describe.
Someone I love has taught me about love and about the really important things in like.......
And still others don't understand what it is like to love Someone!! ↓
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