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

For Hannah, it was enough to bring another wave of tears.

“I was listening downstairs,” she said.

“Every sound, I thought it was them.

Or him finding them.”

I remembered taking the dish towel out with me.

I remembered the weight in the bin, the sniffle, my first foolish suggestion about hide-and-seek.

“I almost thought someone had dumped something inside,” I told her.

“Then I heard them.”