Today, December 7th, 2003, Cindy would have been 31 years
old. This photo was taken in 1991 at Glen Onoko Falls in Jim
Thorpe, PA.
Dear Cindy,
On December 2nd the world got very exciting news. U.K.
astronomers announced that they have found evidence that the
star Vega is surrounded by a planetary system similar to our
own! I immediately thought of you and your favorite movie
Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan. What joy we both
felt as the movie character played by Jodie Foster journeys to
Vega to reunite with her father who had died when she was just
a little girl. When she returns the world is skeptical that she
even made the trip since she dropped through the transport
system for only a moment in time. The videotape evidence
indicated that she had been away for hours, but of course this
was not made public. I do know with your passion for
astronomy and perhaps with some information you gathered
from the other side, you also decided to soul travel to Vega. I
certainly hope you have found a way to travel faster than the
speed of light, something you believed would one day be
possible. If not then it is going to take you 25 light-years, since
the Vega system is 147 trillion miles from our sun. You will
then arrive there in the year 2026. The astronomers at the
Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland say there is a
Neptune-like planet orbiting Vega at about the same distance
as our Neptune, which should leave plenty of room for some
rocky planets similar to earth. My birthday wish for you is that
you find a wormhole, which should shorten your trip
considerably. I imagine with this new information, our scientists
are going to start pointing all the dishes in the direction of the
constellation Lyra, in which Vega is the brightest star. Once
you arrive hopefully you will be able to convince the Vegans to
send us a message, hopefully free of any Hitler references this
time as was the case in Contact. Of course we all wish you
were here with us today and every day. I still feel your energy
and I use it everyday to do good and keep a positive outlook.
Tomas, Mommy, Stan, Daddy, Chris, Joey and Kori all believe
in you, that you are our heavenly anchor, the brightest star in
the sky, keeping the equilibrium in all the cosmos. Happy
Birthday to the best sis in the whole universe.
God Speed Cindy,
Love Richie
