How to Make Sense of a Book With Anonymous Characters

Paul O'Reilly met with Linda Brown, a former colleague and protege of his for 20 years. She sent him journal entries about their relationship starting in 1963 or 64. He thought at the time that this individual who had been her lover during her late adolescence early adulthood was deceased That he had died in a motorcycle accident in roughly 1988. And so she had had no contact with him from at least 1988 until we were beginning our correspondence in 2003 So we're going to do the math. Right.