A week after Gary left, they received a package from Alaska. There was a disc – “101 things you should know about space” and a note on it.

29:33. I think you will understand this. I miss you every day. -Gary

 Jihyo smiled.

Only he would use snail mail to send a disc instead of sending a link via email.

Only she will understand what he was trying to say in the note.

Only he would trust that she would understand him.

What are the chances that they found someone that could understand them so well? What are the chances that they could find another person that can do the same? With an ache in her heart, she put the disc into the player and watched it together with Hyun.

When it reached the time he highlighted, suddenly, everything fell into place.

“As the planets rotate around the sun, the sun exerts a strong gravitational force on the planets pulling them together. Because the force is so strong, even when the planets are so far away from the sun, they still rotate around a fix path, around the sun. But everything is still moving at a high speed, as if they are falling through space. The gravity keeps them from falling apart….”

Even when Gary doesn’t explain anything else in his note, she understood. Looking at Hyun’s eyes wet with tears, she knew, he understood too.

Taeyang was like the sun, and Gary and Jihyo were the planets. He kept the family together. But when he died, it was as if there was