Trying

She looks like a 14-year-old boy, but she’s a 20-year-old woman. She asks a fellow passenger on the light rail if she can borrow his phone to call the group home she’s just moved into. The train is delayed, and she’s worried about losing her place there for breaking curfew. She was homeless, and had to wait for more than a year to get into the group home, where she can spend two years learning the skills she needs to create and keep a stable life. “It’s a really...