A Dream Not Denied
AT 6:30 a.m. Katie Apostolides rises, showers and pulls and tugs at her long brown hair under the dryer until it is a shiny, luxuriant mane. She applies a little eye makeup and arrives on the Becker College campus for her course on principles of teaching at 8:20 a.m. She is more than an hour early.
Ms. Apostolides, 23, likes to say of herself, “I am just a normal girl with a lifelong story.” But that is really just another way of explaining that she has Down syndrome.
