I Found Two Babies in a Cardboard Box on Route 66—Then Their Missing Mother’s Warning Named the Man Asking to Take Them Home
The hospital used temporary identifiers until the children’s identities could be confirmed.
The girl was recorded as 4721.
The boy was 4722.
I wrote both numbers in my notebook.
“Those identify the intake records?” I asked.
“The records and the patients,” the nurse said.
“We’ll reconcile everything when we have verified information.”
On the shoulder, they had been the girl and the boy.