They remind me of Dr. Seuss:
Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches
Had bellies with stars.
The Plain -Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.
Shooting stars are not even stars,maybe your star was:
Shooting stars are meteors, which are basically just lumps of rock moving at very fast speed. When the hit the earths atmosphere the get hot and start to burn up from all the heat that is generated. Where do they land? Most of them won't reach the earths surface as they are to small and burn up before they hit the ground. If they are big enough then they can hit just about anywhere.
http://sssf.byethost31.com/cosmology/322200.html
By coincidence, I'm reading a love story called Wandering Stars, by the great humorist Sholem Aleichem.
Here's a quote from page seventy-one:
"Every star is a person's soul. Wherever the soul goes, the person goes. That's why we
imagine the stars are falling. But stars don't fall - they wander."
Here's hoping that your missing stars wander back to you.
Here: take all of mine. I will be happy to smooth the way with medhelp if you can figure out how to do it. Please.
It's probably a good thing they took my fourth star away. I was in serious danger of taking myself seriously.
For about a minute.
"Hurrumpfh."
I like how you say that, Epiphiny. I couldn't agree more.