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

The words were almost a sob.

“Mommy!”

Maya reached her first.

Chloe followed so closely that their shoulders knocked together.

The woman lowered herself with assistance and wrapped her good arm around them.

Maya pressed her face into her mother’s neck.

Chloe cried hard enough that the paramedic waited nearby, watching while the woman spoke to her.

“I’m here,” she kept saying.