It was her. But not her now. Her as a child, at age seven, standing in her grandmother’s garden in Cornwall, holding a piece of rose quartz. The quartz had been her first gemstone. She remembered finding it in a stream. She remembered the day exactly: July 17, 1978.
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She flew to Helsinki to meet a retired Soviet gemologist, Dr. Anya Volkov, who had once worked at the same institute. They sat in a café near the National Museum. The quartz had been her first gemstone