Roy quotes and writes:
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<<What a day that was for President Den: Bill Batton with his clockwork orange, er, clockwork elephant; Eleanor Bold with her rather ominous request to plant a tree on his grave ("I'm not dead, I feel better--much better!"); and dinner with dog man Charles Turner!>>
<<Difficult to date this day, other than to say that Den is President (safe bet: age 50 to 60; wild range: age 41 to 60ish). Is it within the first few years of his Presidency, or say a dozen years in?>>
Den said that he started to tell the Tilly Tale to Bill Batton "thirty-five or forty years" (135) after hearing it at age 9, therefore he can't be older than 49 on that day.
And two items from Roy's EZ Timeline:
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1954-1959 Time frame for the Lois/Gold affair. Den age 40-45. Sherry Gold is
16. Lois is close to 35.
1963 circa, Den becomes president of the company at about 49. Crazy Pete on island.
Ah, a coup! Teenage Doris is neither Sherry (who would be 20-25 in 1963), nor Sherry's hypothetical daughter (she would be too young; 3-8?); the Doris mystery deepens!
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