Points of Interest
Minnie Vautrin is from Secor. In the 1930s, she was attending college in Nanking, and witnessed the Japanese invasion of the city. She saved thousands of Chinese civilians, but later took her own life.
The film The Fugitive, released in the early nineties, gives make-believe coordinates for the location of Richard Kimball. If those coordinates are placed on a map, they are right outside Secor.
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