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Danielle Edwards and her 2-year-old daughter Billie Edwards and Heather Patrick and her 1-year-old son Gabriel Patrick smile for a photo in Edwards' backyard at her home in Augusta, Georgia, on March 22, 2025. (Chamian Cruz/WABE)

Danielle Edwards’ toddlers are playing in the backyard while she tidies up her living room.

“Sorry,” she says. “Kids’ toys everywhere.”

They live in a small white house in Augusta with Edwards’ husband and a striped white and gray cat named Momo.