This is a love story. But I must warn you, it's not the type of love story you might expect. It isn't "Pride and Prejudice" or "The Notebook," and it most certainly isn't "50 Shades of Grey." No, this is a story about real love, and all the pain, regret, heartbreak, and sacrifice that come along with it. Over the past few months, you've undoubtedly heard a lot of confusing and conflicting information from both the press and the government regarding the fate of NASA's Aeneas mission, but I can promise you that only bits and pieces of the approved narrative have any basis in reality. Of course, that statement does feel somewhat darkly ironic now, since my experiences aboard the Persephone have actually forced me to question reality itself. Either way, rampant speculation and conspiracy theories might make for compelling fodder on talk radio and the nightly news, but in the end, that's all nothing but hearsay. I'm offering you the truth...