Thanks for getting good links and affirming that they are good!
FantasyWriter posting the picture from the cover of Mark’s new book is check mate for the Mal-Val cult’s great 1964 baby swap diversionary fantasy. David and Mark are guaranteed to be identified inside the book.
Will Mal-Val cult members now stop stalking, hijacking and spamming eligibility threads with unfounded claims, especially claims that Mark is Roman Obama and David is Barry...and trying to groom unwary noobie FReepers for initiation into the secret cult, much as a child molester would?
Probably not. But the cover of Mark’s new book and the two boys circa 4 years older will make it much harder to induct new FReepers into the cult if the cover is called to their attention.
Good summation. And then you have both David’s hometown papers stating, as a fact, that he was Ruth’s second son and the brother of Mark. Unlike purely online researchers, these papers have ready access to Nairobi’s birth and death records. It’s likely they have Ruth’s divorce decree also, since those are usually public. This, for any marginally rational person, would seal the deal.
And yet one or at the most two may fight on. It calls to mind those Japanese soldiers on Pacific Islands who continued to fight WWII for decades after it ended. But even the last of their holdouts gave up eventually.