They appeared almost every Sunday, the two children from next door, moving slowly down the block with a single black garbage bag between them, picking up cans, wrappers, and bottles with a steadiness that never asked to be seen. From the window, the car, the front porch, their work looked like simple neighborhood conscientiousness, a weekly ritual of tidying the street. Their mother\u2019s quick, complicated deflection when told she had wonderful kids hinted at something I couldn\u2019t yet name, but did not explain it. It was only on a warm early-spring morning, when I watched the boy crouch at the base of my overgrown boxwood and carefully leave a small plastic-wrapped bundle\u2014containing a folded note and a twenty-dollar bill\u2014that the real shape of their Sunday routine began to revea\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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