Julie Lopez experienced a fulfilling life.

  However, she considered her great-grandchildren her greatest reward.

  "Julie, I must show you something." A hospice nurse held her hand.

  The nurse displayed a holographic projection showing a spacecraft orbiting an exoplanet covered with a civilization's lights.

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  Julie blinked in puzzlement.

  The nurse transformed into an ethereal being, then vanished.

  Julie awakened, instantly recalling what had happened.

  She became a billionaire but felt disenchanted with the tragic loss of her fiancé, so she hired an engineering team to build a single-person interstellar spacecraft. Once they put her in cryostasis, she dreamed until her arrival.