Lottie Talley and Elsie Watts were both adopted from the same orphanage on the same day. If that wasn't enough both girls ended up with families who lived on the same street. You'd think that all of these inexplicable coincidences would've created a special, unspoken bond between the two girls. It did not.

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The two girls quickly became bitter rivals. They competed against each other at everything. They tried to outdo the one another in figure skating, ballet, academics, being the most popular girl in school or running for class president. The girls had so much in common yet harbored such animosity for one another. But why? They should've been the best of friends.

After they graduated from the same university, the women eventually went their separate ways. Lottie married a successful pediatrician named Wallace Booth. The couple had two children, a boy and a girl. After working as a teacher for 30 years, Lottie retired while her husband continued to work part-time. Lottie was notoriously meticulous when it came to keeping a tidy house. Perhaps it was the school teacher in her that needed things to be nice and orderly. so much so that the neighbors dubbed her "Mrs. Clean."

Elsie didn't marry until her early-40s. She married a simple but good-natured insurance salesman named Elmer Bass. The pair never had children and lived a modest lifestyle. Elmer was a good man and worked hard. However, he seemed to like the sound of his own voice, perhaps a little too much. The locals began jokingly referring to him as "Mr. Knucklehead" due to his outlandish stories and penchant for bragging. The name stuck and soon Elsie was being referred to as 'Mrs. Knucklehead' which she didn't like at all.

Little did the two women know that they had both settled in the same little sleepy town of Doveport, Maine. In fact, Lottie and Elsie lived a couple of blocks from one another and had for the past two decades. And yet they had never run into each other in all those years. One Sunday morning Lottie woke up at five in the morning to start cleaning the house as she always did. But something seemed strange. Everything was quiet. Too quiet. The only sound came the ringing of wind chimes on her front porch.

With her husband out of town on a business trip, Elsie was looking forward to having the house to herself. Every Sunday she liked to get the Weekend Edition of the local paper and do the crossword puzzle. But on this particular morning the paper never arrived. It was eerily silent in Doveport. The town felt as if it had been abandoned. There were no people hustling and bustling, no birds chirping, or children at play. Elsie welcomed the peace and quiet and went about tending to her garden.

Both women began to worry as Doveport continued to be engulfed in ominous silence. There was no signs of life throughout the entire town. The streets were empty. When Elsie shouted "Hello", her voice echoed as if she were in a cave. They each knocked on a few doors but nobody answered. Eventually they broadened their searches which brought them face-to-face with each other. "Lottie? What are you doing here?" "Um, I live here and have for the past twenty years." "Oh, that's nice" Elsie half-heartedly replied.