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“It’s a star”, she said. I have thought about stars. I have thought about stars when I get out of my car and the night air is clear. I have thought about stars when I am trying to sleep and I need to clear my mind. I have thought about stars.

There’s a sort of dizzy feeling you get when you look up at the stars. Your eyes lose the horizon and, for a second, you don’t know where you are. Unless you are out in a remote field laying on your back and looking up at them. I wonder what those stars are doing now?

“I’m a star”, she said. I have thought about stars. I have thought about certain stars. I have thought about stars when I get out of fancy cars. I see stars in my head getting out of luxury cars and walking down red carpets. I have thought about certain stars.

Shooting stars have a power over people. I always think about where they are coming from and where they are going. I wonder what those stars are doing now? I get that dizzy feeling when I look up.

“It’s a star”, she said. I have thought about stars. Small dots of light from where we are that, apparently, burned out millions of years ago. It makes me feel very small. It makes the world feel very large. That’s not a bright star in the sky, it’s a planet.

“It’s a star”, she said.

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