It had to be her.
Over the weekend, a man named Joe Salazar said he knew the 3-year-old girl who nearly drowned in the Santa Fe River but for an unassuming hero named Glen Malin, who rescued her that harrowing day in May 1958.
The girl’s name was Donna Lee Vigil and, in this column last Friday, I related how the youngest son of her soggy Samaritan hoped he might be able to find her just to see how life had turned out six decades later.
Several of you contacted me with tips you had unearthed about the little girl, who would now be about 65. But one Donna Lee Vigil was born five years after the near-drowning incident; another was a Vigil by marriage. Two Donnas were born in the 1950s, but not in the right year.