Twelve years ago, Abbie’s life changed forever on a freezing morning during her 5 a.m. trash route. She discovered twin baby girls abandoned in a stroller on a deserted sidewalk, their tiny breaths visible in the cold air. After calling emergency services and watching them be taken into foster care, she couldn’t stop thinking about them. That night, she and her husband Steven—still recovering from surgery and struggling financially—made a life-altering decision to apply as foster parents. The process was intense, and when they learned the twins were profoundly deaf, many families had already declined. But Abbie and Steven didn’t hesitate. They welcomed Hannah and Diana into their small home, learned sign language, worked extra shifts to make ends meet, and built a family through patience, love, and determination. What began as an act of rescue became the deepest purpose of their lives.
Years later, the twins grew into bright, creative teenagers—Hannah with a passion for fashion design and Diana with a talent for engineering and structure. For a school project, they created adaptive clothing for children with disabilities, designing pieces that made life easier for kids who wore hearing devices. They never expected much to come of it, but one afternoon Abbie received a call from a children’s clothing company. The twins’ designs had impressed professionals, and the company wanted to launch a real clothing line with them—offering a paid collaboration valued at over $500,000. The girls, once abandoned in the cold, had transformed their struggles into innovation that could help others. As Abbie watched her daughters celebrate their achievement, she realized the truth: she hadn’t just saved them that morning—somehow, they had saved her too.