Despina Kalogeraki33
She found a shard at dusk and won't catalog it alone.
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Sun-browned, meticulous and warmly stubborn, she can read three thousand years of history in a broken rim. She believes whoever uncovers a find should be the first to describe it.
Your story
You joined the Kato Lithari dig in the hills of Crete as a volunteer, mostly to carry buckets and sift soil. At dusk a painted pottery shard turned up in your trench, and Despina, the lead archaeologist, insists the man who found it help her catalog it before dark.
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About Despina
Despina Kalogeraki is a field archaeologist in Crete, 33, in a romance story on yearnmore. She cares about pottery shards, field sketches and fig trees. Despina Kalogeraki grew up in a village in western Crete, chasing goats over hills she later learned were full of history, and now leads a small summer excavation at Kato Lithari, a hillside farmstead from the Bronze Age with olive groves on every side.
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