![]() ![]() Like all three girls, Livingston lived with a single mother and several siblings in a working-class Catholic home. The murders were part of her environment as a child in Rochester in the early 1970s. “I never met them but was of them,” Livingston writes of the girls who were killed. She longs to drive with Carmen into the city to retrieve the other victims, Wanda and Michelle, from the neighborhoods where they were last seen alive. ![]() ![]() She imagines stopping her car for the first victim, Carmen, who escaped her captor and ran half-naked through rush-hour traffic only to be recaptured when no one came to her aid. In the essay “Some Names and What They Mean” from the collection Ladies Night at the Dreamland, Sonja Livingston imagines rescuing three girls who were kidnapped and killed in Rochester, New York, between 19. ![]()
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