No One’s Ever Really Gone After They Die |
Every time I sit down to write you a letter, it’s because I can’t think of anything else to write about. I start with “Dear Rob” and see where it goes.
Here’s something that might be something: I went to the movies last week, and while I was waiting for the Tom Hanks Mister Rogers film to begin (you would’ve hated it!), there were the usual zillion trailers and the last one was for the new Star Wars movie, which I probably won’t ever see because I haven’t seen one since the original.
I’ve forgotten if you were a fan, but I don’t think that you were. Carrie Fisher was in this one for a few seconds—that’s Princess Leia to you—so she must’ve filmed a few scenes before she died, or maybe they CGIed her in, I don’t know. Anyway, it all looked vaguely familiar, and I wasn’t really paying attention until I heard Luke Skywalker utter the last line—No one’s ever really gone.
I assume they were talking about Princess Carrie (and if you were here now, you’d call me Princess Larry), but of course that got me thinking about you. And sure, I get what they’re saying: that we’ll always have memories of our loved ones and we keep them in our hearts forever. It could’ve been because I was feeling particularly miserable on that day (which is why I went to the........