Aldrin’s Story
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh’s Rev. Thomas G. Kadlick discusses providing a new house for Aldrin and his mother
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“One of my favorite visits was we went and visited Aldrin on his 20th birthday. Aldrin lived with his mom in a hut. A hut is a generous term for where he was living. And it was his birthday. And so, once the nurses found out it was his birthday, they ran to the store and grabbed him some cakes and some orange juice.
“We helped tear down what was existing of the hut so that that we could come in and put in the new house. But to just see him there and see him smiling with his mother and his mother who a single mother living with a 20-year-old boy with Down syndrome. It melted my heart.
“My youngest two siblings both have Down syndrome. And so, to know what that mom is going through, but also just to see Aldrin so happy that somebody cared about him.”