They ate chicken strips and wine gums from the freezer bags Mitch packed for them a few days before they left earth. These items did not go bad, and the wine gums were nice to chew on. They had been George's favourite candy since the eighth grade, when he traded his sister Jane's Wonder Woman comic book to his next store neighbour Cherise for a Beach Boys record and a pack of Maynards. The sun lit up the eastern hemisphere, and he gazed at the soft brown bumps above the indian ocean and wondered not about how amazing it was that his eyes could traverse such a great distance with so little effort, but whether Cherise had done what she had wanted to do years back when she left Sacramento.
It was the first day of the voyage. They were aboard ACT 875,
They go into space.
Say something about the goodbyes.
This will not be
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