In Every Crowd

The kids were getting a little restless. We had been taking pictures of everybody with a Polaroid, a kind of school picture day at the Kid's Club, except that most of these kids had no parents to take the snapshots home to. They were proud of their pictures. They would compare them, show them off to each other, a few even wanted retakes, to fix a blink or a funny expression.

And then there was the one short, crewcut, clown of the bunch. He needed three retakes before he was satisfied.