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I had to act quickly. My brain was operating on pure instinct, triaging the situation like I would in the emergency room. First, I needed to ensure Maisie and Theo were unharmed. I checked Theo\u2019s pulse, relieved to find it steady. Maisie, though scratched and bruised, appeared more in shock than physically hurt. Her emotional wounds were another matter, and I would do everything in my power to help her heal.<\/p>\n

Next came a surge of anger. What had happened with my parents? This was not the version of them I knew. Yet Maisie had no reason to lie. Her fear was real and palpable. I glanced back toward the direction of their house, anxiety and rage wrestling within me. I needed answers.<\/p>\n

As I sat there, holding my children in the grass, a plan formed in my mind. First, I would get them inside, lock the doors, and call someone\u2014anyone\u2014who could help. My thoughts went to my husband, Tom, who was still at work. He needed to know what had happened. Then, I would call the police. Whatever had gone wrong today, it was beyond anything I could handle alone.<\/p>\n

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I had to act quickly. My brain was operating on pure instinct, triaging the situation like I would in the emergency room. First, I needed to ensure Maisie and Theo were unharmed. I checked Theo\u2019s pulse, relieved to find it steady. Maisie, though scratched and bruised, appeared more in shock than physically hurt. Her emotional … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}