This was a powerful and sad news story that had some poignant profiles of young people living on their own. Wow. Reminds me of the story of Debra Gwartney and her two runaway daughters-http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/03/07/live_through_this/
Hmmm. I was driven by hearing the "This American Life" story of them and read the book in a weekend as somehow I was moved by their story. I always feel so lucky that familial bonds kept me safe when I was a teen, but, it could happen to anyone. A few of my close friends in my late teens just disappeared, so you wonder, did they end up like these kids.
I think the photography and video in this piece tells the story in an extremely effective way. I'm interested and will try to find out more about the two women producers and the reporter, Ian Urbina. I blogged about NY Times video about a tent city in Redmond Washington earlier this summer thinking about this same destitute group. It made NYC seem a long way away from this kind of life.
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