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The year 2159
Nobody could have known that the mist on Roklar-Gamma 27 would turn into highly sensitive gas around the warmth of a human body.
Nothing similar had happened when they first send robots or Space-Apes.
But now the Astronaut who stepped on the Planet got blown up and we all saw it on Live-TV
The Year 2122
It was the year the Astronaut came to my school
It also was the year when I killed him. He would never have become an Astronaut if he hadn't gotten good grades in Physics, and he only got those because I let him copy all my test results
The Year 2129
By this time I was madly in love with my Astronaut. But I was a shy girl, so I would never have been able to mutter the words.
But I tried to show him… I even went to the movies with him. If that isn't a sign of love in our time and age, then what is?
It was an old movie we saw, a movie based on the real story of three Astronauts who's ship had exploded, and who could no longer land on the moon.
"Space-travelling was dangerous back in the 20th century!" my Astronaut told me on the way home. "Did you know that no one died in space for over a hundred years now?"
He didn't kiss me when stood in front of my door
The Year 2131
The Astronaut and I were stuck in an open gondola in a snowstorm
We hadn't talked a word since the night he didn't kiss me. How should we have started to do so now?
I just wanted to touch him. Feel how cold his skin was, as part of his training was skiing with his right arm and left foot exposed to the snow, to prepare him to the pain of Space-Travel.
Of course I was still just a shy girl, and didn't dare to reach out.
The Year 2159
The automatic-timed package came the day after my Astronaut landed on Roklar-Gamma 27 .
"Be there when I return" says a letter
"The next time we watch this together, I will kiss you" says a note on a copy of that old movie
The Year 2171
This is the year my Astronaut doesn't return home
All that is left for me to do is to sit naked out in the snow and watch that old movie about three Astronauts who returned home even after their rocket exploded and they couldn't land on the moon.