Interesting
...a few days after we started this train of comments, I started wondering if there weren't some strange rules involved with a company sale, where the sale date locks-in the agreed price of the stock, and that date is used for the holding date for you, even if they might be allowed to actually execute the actual stock sale and distribute the proceeds several months later. Almost sounds like that's what is happening here.
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