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Sandip Roy: Goodbye Carrie

By Sandip Roy
Published January 4, 2017 at 6:40 AM PST
Courtesy of Lucasfilm/cropped from original
Carrie Fisher as Leia and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in "The Force Awakens"

There was much more to Carrie Fisher than Princess Leia.  But some things, good, bad or simply pop define us as people, and become placeholders for adolescence and childhood.

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