"So--" She leans over again, and she circles the Cyrillic-lettered names, and points with the pencil. "Russian." She circles the English names, with another pencil point. "English." Finally, she circles and indicates the names written in her hand. "And me."

She regards the page full of names and loopy circles for a moment, tapping the pencil thoughtfully.

"I wonder how much of it is due to the translating magic of the bar, and how much is actual similarity."