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

Maya had a small toy in her lap and kept looking at the door.

“You found them,” Hannah said.

“Yes.”

“Both?”

“Both together.”

She closed her eyes.

“I didn’t know.”

I assumed she meant she had not known where they had gone.