Anna nodded her head at the star field splashed across the wall. “So many stars,” she said. “Some of them might be ours someday.” “I wonder,” Hector replied, his voice low and sad. “I wonder if we should have them. God gave man the Earth. He never promised him the stars. I wonder if He’ll follow us out there.” Anna squeezed his hand again, and then let it go. “The God I believe in is bigger than all of this. Nothing we ever learn can be an attack on Him as long as that’s true.” Cortez gave a noncommittal grunt. “I want her to have them,” she said, pointing at the spray of light around her. “My
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