-She had spent last week...
-She had spent the last year...
-She had spent three summers...
-She had spent his entire life...

Oh, I get it now.

The syntax just gave me pause, that's all. I've never seen "Person A doing something for a duration of time that was expressed from the third-person context of Person B" expressed that way before. I usually see it written as "All his life/as far back as he could remember, she had been doing <insert thingy here>".

-T.Z.
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"I believe that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
Then find someone whose life gives them vodka and have a party."
--Ron White, stand-up comedian.

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