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Working Title: Love Story
"Consider if you will, the phenomenon of the twin star. Two tremendously powerful celestial bodies in an eternal dance around each other; each to feel the other's warmth, sometimes to exchange energy, but always to dance their dance.
Now consider two separate stars from colliding galaxies passing close enough to be enchanted like so by the other's gravitational pull. The chances of such a freak of nature occurring are not high. The chances of said phenomenon existing indefinitely, exponentially lower. Sooner or later one will take the other out, harnessing it's energy."
- Dr. Jasmine Tseng, World Science Conference keynote, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 15 October 2028.
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For a brief moment in time - maybe as brief as a single lifetime - they came to know each other well. After a long period of solitude, and disbelief that there could possibly be another, they both set aside fears and defences carefully built up over the ages and had for a moment honestly opened their eyes and took a glimpse at what wonders were at work. At what might, just might, be. If that chance were to be taken the two would be far greater.
Fate would remain unappreciative of such potential: the orbit/dance imperfect, perhaps due to differing velocities, or differing compositions. The two began their dance, elliptically at first; orbiting quickly, intensely, passionately when close, slowly, gracefully, delicately when afar.
The warmer would give the cooler energy, warmth, viability in it's own right - it could do no less, it knew of no other way. Because of the differences, this was not to last. The dance continued for a short time then the one now renewed performed a slingshot out of orbit. The one left cold would never be the same.
If one were to take a cursory look on the surface one might see just another random occurrence of nature: two inanimate objects blindly following the laws of physics. If one were to take a leap of faith and anthropomorphise just slightly beyond reason, one might imagine that these entities both had free will, both had choices. One, perhaps out of deep seated fear made it's choice, the other seeing this made another. One to speed up, the other giving everything within itself to enable the first to do so.
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under a Cajun moon I lay me open
there is a spirit here that won't be broken
some words are sad to sing
some leave me tongue-tied
(the hardest thing to tell you)
but the hardest words I know
are I love you goodbye
I love you goodbye.
- "I love you goodbye" - Thomas Dolby, 1992.