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We do matter. To believe that our lives are meaningful is the essence of faith. We are not as large, or as bright, or as eternal as the stars, but we carry humankind's message of love across the galaxy. We are the first. We are the world makers. Our nourishment is hope. Like the tender reed shaking in the wind, we will reach up to a new sun.Amy Kathleen Ryan
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I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?Jessica Maria Tuccelli
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Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.Jessica Maria Tuccelli
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I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted together, a film projected on the back of my mind.Jessica Maria Tuccelli
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There is a design working behind the curtain of the stars, and we are fulfilling it, drawn toward the future on the tide of time, toward our destiny as the first settlers of a new world." The room was still. He has them, she thought.Amy Kathleen Ryan
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Granny always said finding justice was as tough as putting socks on a rooster.Jessica Maria Tuccelli