I Found My Neighbor’s Twin Toddlers Hiding in My Empty Trash Can—Then Their Mother Told Me Why They Had Been Sent to Find Me

Don’t go next door.

Stay on the line.”

I told her the girls’ names and what they had said, separating their words from my own observations.

She did not ask me to investigate the basement.

She did not suggest I confront the man and obtain his side of the story.

A fist struck my front door.

“Nora!”

I stopped speaking for a second.