On Wed Dec-28-2016 00:53, Mike Miller (1:154/30) wrote to Al Kaiser:

 MM>    Hello Al!

 MM> 27 Dec 16 18:59, you wrote to all:

 AK> I just wanted to say especially sad for me.  I JUST returned from
 AK> seeing Star Wars Rogue One and the last face on the screen was
 AK> Princess Leia.

 AK> I came home to the breaking news on my internet feed and CNN that she
 AK> had passed away which could not have been more than an hour earlier
 AK> and just may have been close to the time I was seeing Carrie's face on
 AK> the screen.

 AK> With a tear in my eye... RIP.


 MM>  I was born in 1978.  This means I never knew a time when a
 MM> princess could not be an ass-kicking, snarky heroine in a film. 
 MM> The character that Carrie Fisher brought to life in Star Wars
 MM> changed the world.  She will be deeply missed, not only for
 MM> Princess Leia Organa, but for her wit, her fight to normalize
 MM> mental ilnesses, and her larger-than-life personality.  The entire
 MM> world is a much better place for having known her.

And Postcards From the Edge.  It's strange why her mother said she was in ICU
and stable condidion.  Any human that goes without a heartbeat for 15 minutes
(what I heard on the news) doesn't have much of a life left.

I'm sorry she's gone, too, but as John Wayne said in the movie Hondo,
"Everybody gets dead".


Regards,

Roger 
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