Talk:Peter Van Houten/@comment-92.60.194.97-20170725203729/@comment-2A02:C7F:7A00:500:91DB:1F2C:391F:6447-20180618205506

A section from the author's note may help:

"Neither novels nor their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species"

In other words, John Green has already said that it doesn't matter as it is fictional. So, you may be right but no one will know because the book its-self is a sort of hallucination as it is a figment of John Greens imagination even though parts may have been fuelled by reality.