I can offer this lady here as a possible close acquaintance!.She can help with research since she's a big bookworm and loves to read anything so if you need someone to go through pages of pages of something she's your girl. Especially since she doesn't want to disappoint anyone and will carry through her promise 110%.

Ainsley is a year older than him so they would have known each other growing up? She would have done her best to be his friend as kids but happily settled as someone who knew him well when they got older. Would have made it a point to search him out and speak with him, talk to him, ask how he was, and etc. Really too trusting of people she's known all her life since she can't imagine anything bad happening in their home city so there's that future angle.