When I went to visit my grandmother the other day, she said, out of the blue: "Leah died."
"Huh?" I mentally ran down a list of people we both know.
"Princess Leah," she explained. And then I understood. Carrie Fisher.
Public mourning is a weird thing, especially for actors. In the last weeks of 2016, a spate of celebrity deaths caused many fans to engage in something...not quite like grief, more like nostalgia. Carrie Fisher was not Princess Leia, but it can't be denied that what most people are missing about her is the white-clad space rebel she portrayed.
And that's even more strange, because Princess Leia is not dead.
