I wasn't going to write anything about this, but then this column is all about demographic changes and relationships of sorts and, well, it seems appropriate to write about what has turned out to be an almost 30-year-long attachment. Who says guys can't commit?
Oh, I see you were looking for something more than a long-term affection for 'Star Wars'? Jeez, how was I supposed to know?
It could have been very different. If I had been a little older when Star Wars came out, I'm sure I wouldn't still think a little green puppet with a funny speech pattern was really very cool, but being nine there were no such other distractions, and once caught up there is no escape. Yes, we did play kiss chase, but really only because we wanted to pull girl's hair rather than anything more sloppy. I like to say things have changed.
I'm not going to bang on all fan boy like about the new movie, there's already been acres written about it. I will just say I really did rather enjoy it. It got a lot of things right, more so than it got wrong, which is just as well as I took half a day off work to be among the first to see it. I really couldn't help myself.
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