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 Ioan,
 
-While I'm sure that Codrin#Castor's already told you plenty about me, I wanted to send you a letter directly to introduce myself.
+While I'm sure that Codrin#Castor's already told you plenty about me, I wanted to send you a letter directly.
+
+Something about winding up here in a place so fundamentally different from where we've lived before has me in mind of the past. I wasn't quite sure why this was, at first. Obviously, I miss the prairie and life aboard Castor, and that's all in the past, but one would think that I'd be more worried about what's in front of me than what's behind me. The prospect of months or years aboard this