oooo mysterious crash story surrounding the deaths of his parents? *elder cunningham voice* i'm interested.
also if there's no writer in a stephen king book, is it really a stephen king book? as for lines, off the top of my head we could say her mother was nico's teacher at some point and she might have even worked the cash register or bagged groceries at the store his father managed. so there's at least that, but we could also say his sister went to school with the lookie-loo's. they're all around the same age, so far. mid/late twenties.