Forty-eight years ago, the ship had departed Earth on a two hundred year voyage to 82 Eridani. "Our eyes will never gaze upon the new world," the original crew had told their children, "but we will be the giants upon whose shoulders those who see it, will stand." Born onto a ship they never boarded, raised in a prison they can never escape, and destined to bequeath that fate to their own children, "the talk" becomes a touchstone moment of both childhood, and of fatherhood.
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