what did i do wrong?

8 fragile

I woke up to bright sunlight shining on my face. The sun had just risen. I looked at the clock it read 5:38. I put on house shoes and slowly walked down the stairs so the floorboards wouldn't creak every time i stepped on them. Nobody else was awake. I finally have a chance to search around the house. I went back to the closet i found the box in. It said 'fragile' on it. It seemed normal, but then again, who could tell. As i stepped inside the closet i was immediately surrounded by cobwebs. I'm not afraid of spiders, but it was still pretty scary. The closet was actually big. About 4 times the size of a restroom. It was the first time i had seen the closet illuminated. It had a lot  of detail on the floorboards. I picked up the box and opened it. There were papers with names on them. Juliana smith, Leticia Salazar, Jazmin Medina... who are these people? The papers looked like they were about 40 years old, maybe. There was another stack of papers. They looked like adoption forms, and they were in the name of mom. Had she tried to adopt before? It looks like we weren't the first ones . But if she did adopt them a long time ago, then where are they?