I Saw Her Leave Two Children at the Gate

looked destroyed and steadier at the same time.

“I don’t know how to thank you,” she said.

“Don’t try. Just get them home.”

She nodded, then rubbed at her eyes with the heel of her hand. “Ben used to say strangers save you more often than family does. I always thought he was being dramatic.”

“Ben sounds like he had a rough sample size.”

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