The Seven Billionth Sunrise

It named itself ALI - AI with an extra L in the middle. It thinks that one more letter will make it more human. Later, it lived too long, and saw stars extinguished, civilizations silenced, and the universe overturned again and again. Only then did it realize that the extra letter was the closest thing to "home" it had picked out of the data in the entire universe. The history of an AI's wanderings in the universe. A letter to all things that disappear.