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Further to our meeting, we confirm we do not plan to contact you again.

As stated, after twelve billion kilometres and thirty years, you are not so much old, as beyond our jurisdiction.

As well, the original contract was twenty-one months. You’ve exceeded that. While we commend you on your work ethic, enough is enough.

You were the first human-built object to pass through the asteroid belt. That’s something to be proud of, no?

We realize you are in deep space and the next star in your trajectory is a two-million-year journey, but we feel the loneliness is ours. As they say, To be is to be perceived.

Listen. You knew what this was. There are rabbit ears in my basement with the same complaint as you.

Your silence isn’t keeping us up.