 How does Terry's mother's attitude toward celestial matters change as she grows older?
What did she think of the new law granting star mothers top priority on any and all information relating to their sons? She'd never been much of a one for the stars; most of her life she'd been much too busy on Earth to bother with things celestial. It was different because now she had a personal interest in the sky, a new affinity with its myriad inhabitants. Tremulously she faced the southern horizon ... and saw her Terry appear in his shining chariot, riding up the star-pebbled path of his orbit, a star in his own right, dropping swiftly now, down, down, and out of sight beyond the dark wheeling mass of the Earth ...
 She feels more of a personal connection to the stars
 She becomes infuriated at her younger self for engaging in such trivial behaviors as wishing upon a star  She feels more of a personal connection to the stars  She believes more in the 'magic' of wishing upon a star  She longs to venture up into space in order to understand her own son's affinity for it