While blushing bride Jillian was upstairs getting ready to say 'I do' to her love of 10 years, her father Paul Daugherty, 57, a sports columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, was writing the 25-year-old a beautiful letter in which he detailed how he used to cry over his fear that she wouldn't be accepted by her peers, a fear, he added, that has gone unfounded.
'In two hours, you will take the walk of a lifetime, a stroll made more memorable by what you’ve achieved to get to this day,' he wrote in the letter published by The Mighty. 'I don’t know what the odds are of a woman born with Down syndrome marrying the love of her life. I only know you’ve beaten them.'
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