There was a very long incubation period for this story, which is deeply personal for me in several ways, including my being the parent of a remarkable Down syndrome son. When an editor at Stonecoast Review, Jess Flarity, solicited a story from me for Stonecoast Review #9, I took another, deeper, look at the story and finally realized what it needed and how I could get it done. With the help of Flarity and other editors at Stonecoast, the story clicked for us all. A couple of months later Locus magazine reviewer Rich Horton liked the story well enough to call it a Recommended Read, and then also selected it for inclusion in his annual Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2019 anthology (Prime Books, 2019).