Dream On
The last lines of the song echoed in her mind and in her heart.
"Dream until your dreams come true"
It was almost as hokey as Jiminy Cricket singing "When you wish upon a star".
Her father's dying wish was that she pursue her heart's desire. When he was ill with leukemia, so many years ago, his thoughts were not for himself, not of his legacy but of her dream. He knew since childhood she dreamt of space, and so studied astrophysics and joined the air force in order to become an astronaut. And in the time before he would succumb to his illness he would do all in his power to make it happen. He just didn't know at the time that she had almost everything she ever wanted and more than she ever thought possible. Foolishly she argued with him thinking he wanted as his last act to control her life. All he wanted was for her to be happy.
These very strange yet wonderful last years had brought them to a greater understanding of one another and here it was, his last desire – her happiness. She wasn't quite sure how to go about attaining it but she knew first she needed to remove the barriers to it. One more line of the song flitted through her mind
"You got to lose to know how to win"
God knows, she was getting to be an expert in that. So off she drove to meet Pete for the last time. It was time to stop dreaming and wishing, it was time to see about her future.
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Aerosmith – Dream On
Ned Washington and Leigh Harline - When You Wish Upon a Star