When our daughter Penny was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome, we received two different analogies to understand our new story as parents of a child with a disability. One was a lovely essay by Emily Perl Kingsley, in which Kingsley compares the unexpected diagnosis to an unexpected vacation in Holland instead of Italy.

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