Junkyard 3 week 11

In Highlands, North Carolina, four kids step off a school bus and run for the Presbyterian church next door to the deli I'm sitting at, eating a French Dip. A boy about eight doesn't go with his friends, or meet his mother like a girl in gunmetal boots, but he lugs his backpack down the road to the grocery store to pick up a sandwich before walking home. Another sits on the church fence, swinging his feet.