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Underneath a star, is a large brick house, in which a girl, perhpas fifteen or sixteen, is sitting up in bed. She has a small cell phone in her hand, turning it, as if waiting for something. She takes a deep break, opens the phone, dials a number, puts the phone to her ear, hears it ring, and then-hangs up. The girl puts down the phone. She climbs out of bed and into the hallway, walking carefully because her parents are asleep. At the end of the hall, she stops at a window and looks up into the night. She gazes at the stars and the stars gaze back. The girl think they look like-fireflies. Glowing, glinting fireflies that shut on and off in the dusk of summer evenings. Those summer evenings when the boy-next-door-and her were little kids, and would listen to what the coming night whispered. They would catch those fireflies, sliding them into jars, creating their own twinkling, spiraling universes. The summers passed, and they no longer shared fireflies, but dreams and promises and......

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