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Renate Lindeman

Downpride

If your kids do a happy dance when you're eating pizza, if they cry when you're hurt and if they regularly smother you with hugs; you are the luckiest mom in the world. These are my kids, this is our life and we love it. There's one drawback: there are people who believe two of my three kids shouldn't be alive because they have Down syndrome. To them I say: The gloves are off.

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