Disabled community to be guests of honor at Lafayette prom
Source: Daily Camera
For a Halloween dance one year, Nicole Ortiz dressed up as Fiona -- the green-skinned ogre wife of the cartoon character Shrek.
That was the closest the 32-year-old woman has gotten to feeling like a princess -- until now.
"She is so excited," caregiver Polly Mendoza, 32, said about Ortiz, who was born without any disabilities but developed a severe form of mental retardation when she got a high fever at age 2.
