“Just weeks ago, a 17-year-old student from rural Michigan was living at home with a father and stepmother struggling with addiction. But when staying with family became untenable, she moved in with a friend — an arrangement that fizzled out just as the coronavirus pandemic began to sweep across the U.S.

With nowhere else to turn, she drove down a secluded dirt road north of Grand Rapids, pulled over, and fell asleep beneath the stars.”