I was in a constant battle in my mind between knowing that Matteo and I had to take things slow, and also wanting to move faster than the speed of light. It had been a little over two weeks since everything happened, and Matteo had a lot on his plate, as he was needing to put his mother in a home. He had called me after work on the Friday two weeks after we had stargazed, and told me that he was touring a nursing home after work for his mom. "I feel terrible about it. The past few weeks, I've had pretty much 24 hour nursing care come here. But there is only so much one nurse can do at a time." Matteo said, "It's also crazy expensive. It would be cheaper at this point to put her in a care facility." "Does Sabrina help at all with the cost?" I asked Matteo. "No." he responded, "She

