“Dear Melanie,

For the past few weeks now, I have had you and your sister Cindy, on my mind. Not really sure as to why or what it all meant, until last week. I had just returned from work; it was about 2:30 in the morning. I decided I would go for a little walk, down to the park area, just a few blocks from home.

The sky was clear. I stood there for a few moments and looked up at the stars and just felt so overwhelmed at the serenity and peace they brought me, even in spite of the fact that I was in a city. And it was then; I knew what I wanted to do.

No matter where you are Melanie, no matter what may be going on in your life, your dear sister Cindy, will always be watching over you. It is my sincerest hope that whenever you look up at the stars, you will feel your sister, closer than you have before…

Mindfully,
Dwight”

Yes, Cindy is being lovingly remembered with the star known as 6 Cas in the Constellation of Cassiopeia! What an amazing way for thinking of Cindy! What a comforting thought!

And what a loving soul Dwight is for coming up with the idea! –A gift that totally took me by surprise…a treasure of unspeakable proportions. Thank you.

This gift has filled me with such warmth…a reawakening of beautiful memories with Cindy before her harassment—memories of my childhood when I lived in Europe and Cindy came to visit from her nurses training in Canada and we’d look up at the sky and decipher the shapes of the clouds using our wild imaginations and how that evolved into a love of the universe and all its wonders with the stars and planets…memories of visiting the Vancouver observatory and gazing up at the heavens…memories of watching the laser light show in the science planetarium theatre…

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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