“What if there aren’t stars anymore?” he asked in a hurried and panicked tone, hopped up on all sorts of uppers and downers and about half a Wonka Bar. ”I mean, the way light years work, all the stars we see could have been dead for billions of years, right? So what if everything in the sky is just a ghost, and there aren’t stars anymore?” It’s a question that troubled his mind, but it especially troubled Mrs. Phillips’ 2nd grade class, who just wanted to enjoy the planetarium.
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