More or Less Maddy

by Lisa Genova

she gets out of bed, her entire body stiff and angry with this decision.

Scientists estimate that the sun is 4.5 billion years old and has about as many years left before it becomes unstable and collapses in on itself, thereby destroying Earth (if it hasn’t already been destroyed by then), and she pinches herself lucky to exist here and now, smack in the middle of her planet’s existence.