It's like a feel-good story about someone who gives up their place for the simple things in life gone wrong. She goes back at the end? WHAT?! But I shouldn't have expected any differently, really. Your stories always end with someone dying, someone going insane, or someone making the wrong choice :D The reasons I love them. I liked the way she learned all kinds of artsy things she never had time to learn before. It's... I don't know. I can't really find the words. o_o

unusually beautiful and melancholy for a piece of sci-fi literature. at least, on the whole. this was dreamy, elegant. the line "she couldn't see it, of course" does seem a little unnecessary however, in my opnion. i enjoyed thinking about other peoples' viewpoints as well, about the ships leaving, about this couple in particular. it seems that since they are the only couple to make the ships that they'd be kind of like celebrities. interesting, popularized by a culture simply because you'll live after they are gone. almost like immortality. and the facts their names are Adam and Eva are coyly tongue-in-cheek. Adam goes so far as to even call her "Eves". and the idea about a culuture being made so homogenous is scary and realistic. one would almost think that this "Polara" might as well be the only show at all. good story.