Mother reverses her son's flight to Toronto and he enters the Army

A woman in the audience told Neville how her son called from Toronto where he had gone to avoid the draft; the mother realised she herself had caused it by an imaginal act, dropped it, and the son reconsidered, returned, and entered the army that very night.
Date (happened)
this week
unresolved
  1. this week relative · probable
    Source I Am The True Vine ¶5"this week", told in I Am The True Vine (nid 3958)
    Said as this week
    counted from I Am The True Vine
Place
Toronto
Persons
Paul
Told
  1. c. 1971 estimated · possible
    Source I Am The True Vinedelivery claim d0 on lecture nid 3958 (I Am The True Vine), 1971-??-?? circa/possible, state=weak, from a cluster of early-1970s topical references
    Why 'This week' cannot be resolved to a calendar date since the lecture's own delivery claim carries no month or day.
    Reasoning Passage 556218 is Neville sharing, live in the lecture, a story someone told him that week about her draft-dodging son. The lecture's only delivery claim is a weak, circa-1971 estimate; the telling date inherits that same coarse precision and confidence.
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  • I Am The True Vine ¶5 (Now let me share with you a story someone told me this week — she’s here tonight. He said, “We got a call last Sunday, my mother and I, from my brother in Toronto.” He’s a young man, just nineteen, and he went off to Toronto to avoid the draft.)