A story that touched my heart

When I worked at the Child Care Center as a Site Supervisor, we would receive calls on a daily basis from parents looking for day care.  The one story I will never forget was one mom calling me who had a 4 year old son.  She was crying because she could not find a place for him because he was Autistic.  I told her we had a spot for him and to come over anytime to check out our center.  She said, "Are you sure?  He is Autistic."  I explained to her that I was sure and that made no difference to me.  She enrolled him right away and was over joyed.  Even though by law, providers and centers could not turn him away some how they did.  I will never understand how and why that happened but in a way I was glad because we got him.  He stayed in our program until he was 13 1/2 years old.  He would come every day before and after school.  He is a child that my staff and I learned a lot from and he is a child I will never forget.  As he got older, his mom would remind me of that day she called me crying looking for day care and how I took him in like he was my own.  She told me that she would never forget me for what I did for her and her family.  I would have had a whole center of special needs children if I could have because they teach us so much.  I had a lot of children through out the 9 years I was there, but this is one of the children I truly will never forget.