“I love outer space,” he said.
“Why?” she wondered.
“Because in space, all of my problems are far, far away.
No chaos, no misunderstandings, no destruction, just space.
Something…something incredible lies beyond the universe.
Something waiting to be discovered”
She smiled, gazing up at the stars.
“But most of all,” he continued, “I love the universe, because it’s somewhere I can be free. Somewhere I can do what I want to do.”
She knit her eyebrows and lowered her gaze.
“Sometimes I wonder,” she mused, “What is out there?”
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