You rock, however...
1). They don't have Newports in remote villages in Russia. More likely she was smoking Prince. Or Davidoff if she was really lucky.
2) The boy wouldn't have accepted the nickel because foreign exchange places and banks don't exchange coins.
But I do applaud your research in making the date of your story coincide with the 2001 release date of GF5. :gunk gunk gunk:
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