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<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Could his mental state have something to do with its disappearance? Simulating one’s past like that would be considered clinically unhealthy behavior.
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It could. I can’t argue that it couldn’t. But to drop it entirely and also disappear himself, without a word of any kind, in any form, anywhere to anyone is where the coincidences start to tower to suspicious levels.