Hera

Why did I ever fail you?

Same birthdays
美好
Catherine of Aragon

Selene's cousin Tian is travelling home at the time that he is writing the last words for The Wind at Dawn.

He became associated with Gale Jones by Selene's intervention and Catherine's support.

That night, I kept Louise up til morning.

Catherine and I saw each other for lunch every day. She came over and cooked for me and Louise. The first time Louise canceled, Catherine called me and asked: "Should we cancel?"
I thought about it. "No."
From then on, she and I met alone every so often. We even went camping together.
Soon, I talked to Catherine more than we did with Louise. The beauty of her duty filled my heart.

Catherine's heart in Gale's hands

"If you called her just once, she would've stayed. If you spoke to her on the phone just once when I called you, she would've waited for you forever. How could you forget her like that? How could you betray me?"

"I killed her," I realized.

"We loved you, Gale Jones!" I listened to her cry for what was too long, and let my own tears flow. The call went quiet in the end, and sometime after that she said the last words she would spare to me: "I hurt you deeper than you shall ever know, so I forgive you. Never talk to me again."

I hung the beeping line and threw the phone against the wall. Then I fell to the floor defeated, laying vanquished. At sunset on December 22, the winter solstice, the darkest night of the year was only getting started.

In the Bible, Artemis / Diana was made into a souvenir figurine at Ephesus, where her temple was. See: mission of Paul the Apostle

First exoplanet discovered in 1992

Selene's lunar birthday falls on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

She had her ceremony at fifteen to be a woman, and then one at twenty to become a "man" (a legitimate heir) to satisfy her personal vow of chastity (that she was goaded into doing as a child).

The autumn equinox is on September 22, 1980.
Her Gregorian birthday is September 23, 1980.
The autumn equinox is on September 23, 1999.
Her twentieth lunar birthday is September 24, 1999.

Gale knows Selene missed her flight. This is revealed in couplet four.

Selene is angry Gale turned down Charlotte, and notes he was okay cheating on his fiancée.

Selene introduces dou dizhu and cartomancy.

Catherine is dutiful, but proud. She is at her worst when she is angry and wrathful.
Catherine overlooks not the worshippers of the stars.
Idolatry = Foreign worship = Worship of the stars.
Catherine kept an eye on Tara and Gale. She knows that Gale saw Tara in Montreal, and later mistook Louise for Dawn.

The moon is not the Moon.
Our moon is not a sphere orbiting the Earth, but a reflection of the Sun.

When Gale is with Selene, he can't ever see Dawn.
How about this, Gale Jones: I teach you the first three of my maxims. In exchange, you be my loyal retainer for one month. I swear not sunrise oaths, but I shall sing a Moonlight Serenade.
Gale acknowledges, accepts, accompanies, accomplishes, and accounts Selene for a month starting from the day of Louise's birthday. 1999/08/19 to 1999/09/19 (32 total days spanned, Beethoven 32 variations)
acknowledge: who she is
accept: what she is
accompanies: when and where she is
accomplishes: why and how she is
accounts: five W's and one H about who she was
Forevermore, he is the pre-eminent expert of who she was at that time in her life. Thanks to him, the world shall be the companion of that lonely girl.

Unravel once a year.
(Gale has trouble with this one, and Selene kickstarts it by taking unnamed drugs, satisfying her duty to always fulfill her oaths. The end of this oath satisfaction has them as friends, during which Gale finds out how awkward Selene is when he gives her not the utmost charity. He even finds her surprisingly immature.)
Lie once a lifetime.
(Selene's one lie in her life is "Selene Bauman", a falsehood she carries forever. Gale's falsehood, it turns out by the end, is Dawn.)
"My life must have a fate to be discovered.
Wealth shall be lost and be in time recovered."
Selene makes Gale thinks of Louise in part because Selene mentions Sailor Moon, which Louise liked to talk about.
Louise lived in Lyon, Moscow, Beijing, and Tokyo. She does not remember anything in Paris except the conservatories and the Eiffel tower.
Louise reading manga, says she wishes for a manga about a girl at the Conservatory of Paris.
Selene remembers Louise from an event in Hong Kong that she attended while young.
Gale remembers a story Louise told him about a Chinese-German girl she met at a competition who also liked Sailor Moon. He realizes that Selene is the girl from that day, and that girl's name was Autumn Moon. The girl had an older sister there, in Louise's recollection, who scooped Autumn Moon up and after a smack took her out of the hall. Gale realizes that this older sister is Spring Moon, the same name that Selene gave as a translation of her sister's name.