This administration and its behind the scenes assistants and string pullers have a way of silencing those they want silenced.
Look at Breitbart.
No one from Zero’s past has spoken about him other than that Drew fellow, that I can think of. Anyone else has either lied (the teacher who “remembered” the delivery doctor), can’t get ahold of them (Siddiq), permently silenced (choir guys at Trinity), says on the phone they can’t talk, don’t remember him, or no one even knows their names.
It doesn’t require any stretch of the imagination to figure that anyone from Mercer Island who might remember SAD has been told one way or another to shut up. Same reason there are no year books. There is something that we are not supposed to know. And not just about SAD’s whereabouts, we’re not supposed to know anything about his past life. Occidental, Columbia, Harvard, Chicago, his childhood - not a word, scrubbed, hidden, pulled off the internet, out of the archives, etc.
It stands to reason that every single iota in “Dreams” is suspect unless there is corroborating evidence that is not at all dependent on any “fact” presented in the book. Every single sentence in that book was written for a specific purpose - to create a fake life and to hide the truth.