She was new to the city in 2003, just starting out at the Times when she moved into 98 Riverside Drive, where her journey with Florence and the diary began. One day she noticed that there was a dumpster full of steamer trunks. Curious, she climbed into it and sifted through the contents to claim some treasure as her own. She kept a designer jacket and an old flapper dress. She was given the diary by someone else who’d found it in the dumpster. Upon reading it, she felt very connected to Florence, eventually hiring an investigator to find her.