And in that moment, I understood.
He was my child.
Not the illness.
Not his appearance.
Not people’s stares.
Just my son.
But people could be cruel.
When Daniel was five, children called him “Grandpa.”
When he was eight, strangers secretly took photos of him on the street.
When he was twelve, he came home in silence.
“Mom… if I were normal, would people love me?”
That night, I cried after he had fallen asleep.
But the next morning, he did something that would eventually change everything.
Daniel opened an old notebook and began to write.
Every day.
About every pain.
About every tear.
About every dream.
I had no idea that one day, millions of people would read that notebook…
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PART 2
Years later, Daniel’s notebook unexpectedly appeared online.
I had not posted it.
Daniel had not wanted to post it either.
