“Have you ever heard of supernovas?” Susan asks me as we head toward the front gate. “What?” I almost stop in my tracks. “Ben was really into space as a kid and he had all of these space books. I used to read them to him when he couldn’t sleep, and I always loved the little chapter in this one book he had on supernovas. They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly. A supernova is a short burst of extraordinary energy.” “Yeah,” I say. “I like to think that you and Ben were like that,” she says to me. “That you ended abruptly, but in that short time, you had
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