The Neighbor’s Kids Cleaned Our Street Every Sunday—Then I Found What They Were Hiding Under My Bush

old photographs.

A child’s drawing.

Three envelopes.

And a small notebook with a black cover.

I opened the notebook.

The first page contained a date from more than twenty years earlier.

Underneath it was a sentence written in faded blue ink:

“If you’re reading this, please don’t throw anything away.”

I felt a chill.

I turned the page.

There were names.

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