Hi, my name is Chris Jones and I'm a writer based in Port Hope on Terrile Canada.

Like you, I've spent a lot of time inside my house, even more than normal for a writer over the

past several weeks. I'd like to introduce you to someone named Sarah Seeger, who I think might help

you get through this. Get through this pretty difficult time for all of us. She's someone who endured

and survived terrible personal loss, but is also doing groundbreaking, important, really inspiring work.

She is an astrophysicist who is searching for other life in the universe and she believes that she

will be the one to find it. She wants to be able to take her kids outside and point to one star

and go to the planet next to that star as someone looking back at you on it.

So in the middle of this quarantine, I've been going outside every night and looking at the sky

in a totally different way because of the time I spent with Sarah.

And I think we could all use this moment a little perspective, a little hope, and maybe in some

strange way Sarah's work on the stars might give you just a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

So here's my story, the woman who might find us another earth, read by Gabbars Ackman.

Like many astrophysicists, Sarah Seeger sometimes has a problem with her perception of scale,

knowing that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies and that each might contain hundreds of

billions of stars can make the lives of astrophysicists and even those closest to them seem

insignificant. Their work can also paradoxically bolster their sense of themselves.

Believing that you alone might answer the question, are we alone? Requires considerable ego.

Astrophysicists are forever toggling between feelings of bigness and smallness, of hubris and

humility depending on whether they're looking out or within.

One perfect blue sky fall day, Seeger boarded a train in conquered Massachusetts on her way to

her office at MIT and realized she didn't have her phone. She couldn't seem to decide whether this

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