He had this way of staring deeply into me as if I were a universe unto myself that he ever wished to explore. For my 26th birthday, he presented me with the spectrum of HD 189733—a distant sun, 26 light-years away, whose core was threaded with gold.
“Sweet, when you were born, this light left this star and traveled through the vastness of interstellar space, the countless dust and the endless nebula. It arrived and visited this world after 26 light-year journey. So did you. Here you met your starlight, and I met you.” He said.
With gold born from that very star, he crafted for us a pair of M??ebius rings.Though our orbits have since diverged, on nights when sleep eludes me and I turn to counting stars, the sweetness of what we had always rushes back to me.