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Traverse City event explores questions of marriage & family among adults with Down Syndrome

Monica & David

Thanks to big advances in pediatric heart care, people with Down Syndrome can now expect to live well into adulthood, which raises new issues around the questions of love, marriage and children for developmentally disabled adults.

Thursday at the Traverse City State Theatre, a love story that won a best documentary award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010: Monica & David.

The title characters and the film’s director will be in town for a panel discussion following the film, which starts at 5:30pm. IPR talked with them this week.