Update on lost BTC wallet from 2013 - which way to proceed?

Hey all, I will try to keep responding to replies on the original post, I got blocked from my own post because I was responding too quickly.

Here is the update, and we are wondering which way to go with this as we have the laptop working and the owner says she does remember that the wallet lived on the TOR browser. There are apparently two wallets that were available on TOR at that time: Electrum and Coinwallet. She believes it is Coinwallet.

That being said, we don't know much about TOR, but it makes sense to try and access TOR and hopefully Coinwallet on the original laptop, but we can't seem to connect, as it gets to 5% bootstrapping "connecting to directory server" in the log, and "connecting to a relay directory" under the Status bar.

Hoping someone could give us some guidance on how to proceed. We loaded TOR on her current laptop, and wasn't sure where to go from there. We also downloaded Coinwallet to her current laptop, running into the passphrase requirement. I believe there should be 12.

This brings us to the second avenue of approach, as we found a text file with 30,000 words, groups of numbers and number/letter combinations. About 270 of them are common with the 2048 word list. This list was apparently created by the person that set up the wallet/TOR for her and this person was a cybersecurity expert for the DoD. Might this be able to be parsed/decoded with a program? We entered the first 12 words that appeared on both lists in the order of appearance into the Coinwallet passphrase box on her current laptop with no success.

She is going to keep looking around on both drives (it was switched out between the dates of the first and last transactions on the Coinbase exchange log) to see if anything else jogs her memory.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice!

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