Marriage is a big step for anyone. When the two spouses have Down syndrome, it’s the cornerstone of an incredible story
Family First recently touched base with Danielle and her family to see where she — and her dreams — are today.
There’s something about Los Angeles that encourages people to dream big. How else to explain how two down-to-earth transplanted Midwesterners dared to dream that their first child, born with Down syndrome in 1991, would grow up to be a happily married woman?
It took a while to get to that point, though. When Danielle’s parents, Holly and Terry Magady, first heard the news, they had to digest it. It was Pesach and Shabbos, just a few days after their new daughter’s birth, and they couldn’t reach out to family and friends or even speak to a social worker — there was no one on duty. They both remember feeling very alone.
“At first all I could see was her disability,” Holly recalls. “But she was my child. Little by little, as I got to know her, Down syndrome became just one of the parts of her. It wasn’t front and center anymore.”
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