I Found Two Little Girls Hiding Inside My Empty Trash Can—Then One Whispered, “Please Don’t Send Us Back.”

” Lucy shouted.

I hugged them both.

Natalie started crying.

“I don’t know how to thank you.”

“You don’t have to.”

“Yes,” she said. “I do.”

We sat in my kitchen, where the twins had eaten strawberries after I found them.

Natalie looked toward the window facing the neighboring house.

“For the first few days, Grant let me upstairs as long as I did exactly what continue reading …