Going to space had always been Dan's dream. Every little boy and girl want to be astronauts at some point in their lives. But Dan had wanted to be an astronaut from the start. All the gifts he ever received had been space related, he knew everything you could know about space, and, as soon as he was old enough, he started a complete physical training. He also studied a lot, focusing in physics and mathematics. His life wasn't much outside his astronaut pretensions, and his mother always told him that obsessions weren't good, that he needed to go out and meet other people. The only friends he had were people he had met in space-related online forums, and he had never met them in real life. Whenever he had time he would spend it on the internet talking about his dreams and other people's dreams.
When he finally entered the astronaut training program, he was in seventh heaven. He called his family and he talked about it with his online friends. Dan was seeing himself up in space. He passed all the tests he went through, both physical and intellectual, and he was scheduled to take part on the following space mission. He, seriously, was going to space. Some weeks before his anticipated departure he went to the gym for his regular training.
Dan woke up in a hospital bed some days later. He had had a heart attack because of a previously unidentified heart condition. He would never be able to go to space. And his world crumbled at that very moment.
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