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

I’m documenting what we observed.”

That answer was less satisfying than the one I wanted.

It was also more useful.

She had another call waiting before long.

At the ambulance entrance, she stopped beside me.

“Don’t lose the times in the emotion of it.”

“I won’t.”

“You probably will, if you don’t write them.”