Life with a superhero

By Kathryn U. Hulings

Subjects: Biography, Medical, Patients, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Mothers of children with disabilities, HEALTH & FITNESS, Colorado, biography, Health & Biological Sciences, Children with mental disabilities, biography, Mothers and sons, Adopted children, Down syndrome, Children with mental disabilities, Family relationships, 0, Pediatrics, Adoptive parents, Children's Health, Medicine, Down syndrome, patients, biography, MEDICAL

Description: Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same babyâ€"Michael â€"who is, in fact, very much alive and now twenty-two years old.