CONTENTS

Preface

I Am Lost

How I Started

Chapel School

The Turning Point

The Curiosities Will Save Us

A Costly Mistake

Our Losses

Something Stares at Me From the Cliff

An Accident Leads to a Discovery

New Places, Uncomfortable Thoughts

Disappointed Expectations

A Chance Meeting

A Stolen Fossil

Joseph Takes Matters into His Own Hands

The End of a Friendship

Hopes, Dreams, and a Lonely Reality

A Great Distance Between Us

A Demeaning First Meeting

Others Get the Credit

A Geological Tea Party

An Understanding

Epilogue