“It was a tough situation, as far as I knew,” she said. “She was 19, she’d promised her parents that she was going to finish college, even through she’d married.So she was either born early in January of 42 or sometime in 41.
Then there is finish college? Implies she was close to completing or had already had sometime in college, not just starting....
And I can tell you as a parent, and I know mothers are way better at this than I, but I can remember my kids age at certain events, like when a hurricane hit us I remember my youngest was only four months old....