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To: wagglebee
I used to work for a power company in energy conservation. I worked with a lot of commercial customers.

One day I was chatting with a facilities guy as we walked to another building and we chatted about his kids. He told me one of his young sons had Down's Syndrome.

I stopped and just looked at him. He looked at me and asked what the problem was, I said I could usually read people fairly well but the way he said that I couldn't tell how he felt.

He asked me if I'd ever known any Down's kids and I said yeah, a couple. He asked my impression of them, I said the ones I'd met were happy go lucky kinda folks and were a joy to be around. He just smiled and said "That's my boy."

That made my day.

5 posted on 09/16/2011 4:51:17 PM PDT by EN1 Sailor (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness)
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To: EN1 Sailor

What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it.


16 posted on 09/17/2011 8:04:10 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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