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Mark Hamill and his family arrive at Cambridge University before speaking to students at the Cambridge Union debating society
Even if he fought with REAL light sabres, you know what would be the most amazing thing about Mark Hamill?
He’s still married to Marilyn York. They’ve been married since 1978. In 1978 he was in the peak of the Star Wars celebrity stuff. They were both in their 20s. They’ve raised three kids. Had all the ups and downs we all do, plus his celebrity, fall from and return to ridiculous heights of celebrity.
And they’re still married. I don’t believe in the fairytale – I’ve now known too many older couples who in their 70s or 80s talk as if their lives together had been a minor fairytale – and if they can now be happy and gloss over the periods of bleakness or turmoil and unhappiness *I* remember, I’m happy for them, but they happened. Which is to say: the Hammil/York marriage may or may not have been one that you or I would have stayed with. But it’s worked for them.
And isn’t THAT at least as amazing as The Force?
YES. It makes me want to cry, because it’s just that amazing.