The Story Behind
"She was both a very hard-edged person in professional settings and the first one to cry among her friends.
A lot of people found this contradictory.
She didn't.
In a meeting, she could dismantle someone's proposal with clean logic and no visible emotion. After work, she could cry hard at a mediocre film.
A former colleague once said: ""I absolutely cannot imagine you crying.""
""I cry a lot,"" she said. ""Just not at work.""
Not suppression. She just kept different parts of herself in different places.
She thought people were more than one side. And every side was real — the hard version was her, and so was the soft one.
Both true."
The cool of lapis against the warmth of red agate — two things on one ring. Because you were never just one colour.
