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Slowly, slowly, he opened his eyes

The junk yard was still there

He sat motionless He looked at the heaped piles ofup, he kicked the levers "Take off, damn you!"

The ship was silent

"I'll show you!" he cried

Out in the night air, stu machine and advanced upon the rocket He hts into the hts, to smash, to rip apart this insolently false drea for which he had paid his"I'll teach you!" he shouted

But his hand stayed

The silver rocket lay in the light of the hts of his ho war so the rocket and the house lights, and his eyes narrowed and greide He stepped down froan to walk, and as he walked he began to laugh, and when he reached the back door of his house he took a deep breath and called, "Maria, Maria, start packing We're going to Mars!"

"Oh!"

"Ah!"

"I can'tbelieve it!"

"You will, you will"

The children balanced in the windy yard, under the glowing rocket, not touching it yet They started to cry

Maria looked at her husband "What have you done?" she said "Taken our money for this? It will never fly"

"It will fly," he said, looking at it