A Peculiar Mourning

Those who know I'm an avid Star Wars fan (and who doesn't know that?) might be inclined to ask me two questions lately: have I seen Rogue One yet, and isn't it sad about Carrie Fisher? The answer to the first is not yet, I'm not super-hyped about it but I'll get around to it eventually, primarily so I can see Mon Mothma and Bail Organa as played by the actors from the prequels. As for Carrie...well, I have thoughts, but let's get to them in a roundabout way.

A few weeks before Christmas, I got a letter from the hospital. We're always getting some sort of mail reminding us to get checkups or asking us to fill out a medical survey or other such things, so I opened it with little concern. The opening line of the letter informed me that my Ob/Gyn had recently died.
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