The Starfarers
I. We left Earth orbit on April 3rd, 2147. I remember the day because it was my forty-fifth birthday, and my daughter Sarah was twenty-two and standing on the observation deck with a cup of coffee, watching the blue marble shrink below us. "Goodbye, Mamaw," she said. She called Earth "Mamaw" when she was six—short for "mother," in a way. She never stopped calling it that, even though she had...
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