By Tim Hartwig
Submitted by Kirk
Date: 2008 Aug 24
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Galileo

It was another sun-drenched day at the Cove. She was definitely a California girl. Blond, beautiful, tanned. She had freckles, as the midnight sky has constellations. On her right thigh, the Pleiades. On her left, Orion's belt. The Milky Way was splashed across her shoulders and face. And he longed to be an astronaut.