Los Angeles. June Sands, 36, who has struggled with alcohol and drug addiction since she was a teenager. Five years ago she had a daughter Victoria, who she struggled to raise then gave up to her parents.
Joy in Brooklyn. Beneath the Manhattan Bridge, a Puerto Rican grandmother, her daughters and granddaughters enjoy the cold spray of an open hydrant on a particularly hot day.
The skull sinkside at the Newark morgue is that of a man murdered in 1992 in a gang-style slaying. Killed by a shotgun blast to the head, he was dumped beside the New Jersey turnpike. Since then the body remained unclaimed.