I met my best friend on a cool fall day at the start of my freshman year. She was a bright, affable, and loving bundle of joy who stood just three feet tall. Emily captured my heart from the second I met her. Happiness simply radiated from her and just being around Emily filled me with delight; I was hooked. At three years old she seemed grown beyond her years. She could walk, talk, out-eat a grown man, and her dance moves were Dancing With the Stars worthy. Now that might not impress you all that much but what I have not told you is that Emily lives with Down Syndrome and although she does it quite well, she still faces challenges and tasks every day that most kids find relatively simple. Three years later, things such as walking up the
