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Termination of my pregnancy was offered to me so many times I lost count. My unborn child had a 98% chance for Down Syndrome.
The specialists listed her markers clinically; thick neck, short limbs and heart complications. Constant reminders that these pregnancies terminate themselves often and without warning.
Not once did they connect me with families raising children with Down syndrome. Not once did they mention joy.
Three years later I’m still stunned by the contrast of their grim predictions…
I'd like to say I've visited an unusual number of college campuses across the country. Without getting serious about counting them up, it's gosh, over 30. Most of the major schools on the West Coast, as well as quite a few in the middle and sad East. IMO, the Berkeley campus is not only unique. It is uniquely and majestically gorgeous. Nowhere, not UW, not Boulder, not NAU, not Eugene or any other place supposedly located in picturesque places, can begin to compare to the views from the Berkeley campus out over the Bay and Golden Gate into the settting sun, or the shimmering hills on a Saturday morning. And the old granite buildings, and redwoods, and Strawberry Creek. Faculty Glade. To be in a place so spectacularly beautiful, beneath the Campanile, and among the buildings that house the brightest minds in the world, is an overwhelming joy for me.
No words, despite my efforts here, begin to convey what that campus means to me.