Hannah told the twins that Rebecca never treated her like a problem that needed fixing.
“She made me feel like I was still a person,” Hannah had said.
A week before Rebecca returned home, Hannah panicked and disappeared from the shelter.
Rebecca searched for her but could not find her.
Before leaving Cape Haven, she gave the center director her silver locket.
Inside was the photograph of us.
On the back, Rebecca wrote the message telling Hannah to find me if she was afraid.
Rebecca had planned to tell me about Hannah.
She never got the chance.
After the crash, the center director eventually located Hannah and gave her the locket. She also told her that Rebecca and her unborn daughter had died.
Hannah was overwhelmed with grief and guilt.
She believed she had already caused Rebecca too much worry.
When she gave birth to the twins several weeks later, she panicked again.
She had no stable home, and the girls’ biological father had begun trying to locate her.
Hannah wrapped the babies in towels donated to the shelter, placed the locket and letter inside the hidden seam, and brought them to the changing cubicle near the staffed boardwalk.
Then she called 911 from a public phone.
