A woman imagines and receives two reconciliation letters

In New York City this past May he told his audience they must be doers of the word, and a longtime student, estranged for two years from her son and daughter-in-law Mary, went home and for seven nights imagined reading two letters she had mentally written herself - one from her daughter-in-law and one from her grandson - and on the eighth morning received exactly those two letters in the mail; she gave him permission to tell the story, and his audience objected in the question period to the idea of writing one's own love letters.
Date (happened)
between May 1953 and May 1954
unresolved
  1. between May 1953 and May 1954 estimated · possible · preferred
    Source Awakened Imagination 2lecture nid 2026 delivery claims d0 (estimated/probable, 1954, Einstein epigraph) and d1 (stated/possible, 1954, chrome byline); event's existing relative claim ('this past May')
    Reasoning Both delivery claims on the telling lecture agree on 1954 but give no month; the event is already recorded as happening 'this past May' relative to the telling. Without the lecture's month, 'this past May' is ambiguous between May 1953 (telling before May) and May 1954 (telling after May), so I bound it as a between-range covering both. Confidence is capped at possible: one hedge from the year evidence (probable at best) plus a second from the unresolved which-May ambiguity.
  2. This past May relative
    Source Awakened Imagination 2 ¶7"This past May", told in Awakened Imagination 2 (nid 2026)
    Said as This past May
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  • Awakened Imagination 2 ¶7 (For seven nights this lady read these two letters. On the morning of the eighth day she received the letter. On the inside there were two letters--one from her grandson and one from her daughter-in-law. These letters were identical with the letters she h…)