However, after interviewing Lavery, Gladwell wrote a second "New Yorker" article in which he characterized Lavery's appropriation as "permissible borrowing." Lavery, for her part, acknowledged that all three characters were drawn heavily from external sources. For the character of Ralph, she drew on the book "The Murder of Childhood" by Ray Wyre and Tim Tate. For the character of Nancy, she drew on an article in "The Guardian" by Marian Partington, whose sister Lucy had been murdered by the serial killers Fred and Rosemary West. And, for the character of Agnetha, Lavery drew on the Gladwell article. "I wanted [the play] to be accurate", she told Gladwell. The "TalkinBroadway" reviewer of a Florida production wrote: "[A] powerful drama ... about three people living the human condition... a story that needs to continue to be told."