This was a business set up to give the client anonymity, in which all customers were known by the brand name of saints and Baptists, Waynes and Kennedys, the most Christian, most American of names. Johns. Or “dates,” which the women simply called the men, or, if you preferred magic, “tricks.” Anyway, through anonymity or deceptive casualness or magical disappearance, the men remained hard to find, and the women…well, to Caroline, they were all dead or dying.
