Gavin showed me a list of questions rather than personal records.

He wanted to know how a person could work hard for decades and still end up without a safe place to sleep.

“I thought grown-ups knew how to stop that from happening,” he said.

“Sometimes they don’t.

Sometimes help is complicated or hard to reach.

But helping is not something you have to solve alone at sixteen.”

He looked ashamed.

“We wanted to be the people who fixed it.”