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• May the force be with you.

Prepare your inner child you must. Carrie Fisher has confirmed she will return to the screen as Princess Leia in the upcoming installment of Star Wars.

You can read the piece from Paste Magazine that talks about her confirmation here. OR you can just gaze into those starry eyes and remember a time long long ago and far far away. When Banthas were used for Sand People to ride on instead of having their DNA turn up in intergalactic Taco Bell meat. And when people actually hired Mark Hamill.

This article appears in Feb 28 – Mar 6, 2013.

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Leia Will Be Back!

by Ethan Maffey, The Source - Bend, Oregon
March 6, 2013

<h1>Leia Will Be Back!</h1> <p class="byline">by Ethan Maffey, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />March 6, 2013</p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter"><img src="https://media2.fdncms.com/bend/imager/may-the-force-be-with-you/u/original/2222056/1362593193-0429_princess_leia_bikini_00.jpg" alt="May the force be with you." title="May the force be with you." width="450" height="337" /></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.bendsource.com/bend/ImageArchives?by=2124650"></a></li> <li>May the force be with you.</li> </ul> </div> <p>Prepare your inner child you must. Carrie Fisher has confirmed she will return to the screen as Princess Leia in the upcoming installment of Star Wars. </p> <p>You can read the piece from Paste Magazine that talks about her confirmation <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/03/carrie-fisher-confirms-that-she-will-return-for-ne.html" target="_blank">here</a>. OR you can just gaze into those starry eyes and remember a time long long ago and far far away. When Banthas were used for Sand People to ride on instead of having their DNA turn up in intergalactic Taco Bell meat. And when people actually hired Mark Hamill.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/leia-will-be-back-2222055/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=18359&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/leia-will-be-back-2222055/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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