{"id":49053,"date":"2026-05-08T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=49053"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:32:23","slug":"i-adopted-twins-with-disabilities-after-i-found-them-on-the-street-12-years-later-i-nearly-dropped-the-phone-when-i-learned-what-they-did-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=49053","title":{"rendered":"I Adopted Twins with Disabilities After I Found Them on the Street \u2013 12 Years Later, I Nearly Dropped the Phone When I Learned What They Did"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twelve years ago, during my 5 a.m. trash route, I found abandoned twin babies in a stroller on a frozen sidewalk and ended up becoming their mom. I thought the wildest part of our story was how we found each other\u2014until a phone call this year proved me very, very wrong.I&#8217;m 41, and 12 years ago, my life flipped on a random Tuesday at 5 a.m.I work sanitation. I drive one of those big trash trucks.At home, my husband Steven was recovering from surgery.That morning was bone-cold. The kind of cold that bites your cheeks and makes your eyes water.At home, my husband Steven was recovering from surgery. I&#8217;d changed his bandages, fed him, kissed his forehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Text me if you need anything,&#8221; I told him.He tried to grin. &#8220;Go save the city from banana peels, Abbie.&#8221;Life was simple then. Tiring, but simple. Me, Steven, our tiny house, our bills.No kids. Just a quiet ache where we wished they were.I turned onto one of my usual streets, humming along to the radio.That&#8217;s when I saw the stroller.It was just sitting there. In the middle of the sidewalk. Not by a house, not near a car. Just\u2026 abandoned.My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve years ago, during my 5 a.m. trash route, I found abandoned twin babies in a stroller on a frozen sidewalk and ended up becoming their mom&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":47,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49055,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49053\/revisions\/49055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}