Adri, centre, and her two daughters relocated to Lewiston, Maine, from South Africa in March. Image: Ryan David Brown/For The Washington Post On a recent weekday afternoon, a 41-year-old single mother from South Africa who had arrived in the United States this spring as a refugee pulled into a coffee shop in central Maine. Her life in America was off to a quick start. That day, she had bought a car, a 2014 Nissan, from fellow newly-arrived South Africans.