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Leaving my car and stepping up to my door, I pause before allowing myself inside. The frigid night air provides a calm for me, and, as if responding, I look up into the darkened sky. The moon is faint, in its final phase of waning, but the sliver of a crescent I catch with my eyes still fills the surrounding atmosphere with pale blue light. I love the night like this; just enough light from the moon to illuminate the lightless dirt roads of the land I call home while also allowing a plethora of stars to shine just outside its grasp. The less light the moon gives, the more stars I get to see. A night like this provides the perfect balance of moonlight and starshine. It's the kind of night that makes it difficult to bring myself indoors; that makes me want to risk catching a chill for just a moment longer of dreaming. I stare for another minute. Perhaps luck would allow me sight of a shooting star, but the sky remains still. With a final breath of clean air, I open my door and vanish indoors, eagerly awaiting the next astral phenomenon, whenever it may arrive.