Very thoughtful, precise, and artistic - what a tribute to the girlfriend!
"....the right piece of Marble with the right consistency. It also had to be a piece that spoke to him and showed him that it already contained the forms that he wanted. This meant looking at the grain of the stone, the luminescence of the stone and the flow of the stone. This would all help him to carve exactly what he wanted."
She emerges from the marble... love it!