who they’d called from a payphone and who had not called back.
They’d been in a foster placement for 4 days before the situation there became something none of the three boys would describe in detail that first night.
Only Marcus said, quietly and with the certainty of someone who has already decided they will never speak of it again, “We couldn’t stay there.
So, they’d left.
They’d taken their garbage bags and their thin jackets and they’d walked.
For 11 days they’d moved through the city, sleeping in a
