Carrie Fisher - Shockaholic

At the time of Greg’s death, my friend Dave said to me, “Honey, I know this is a pain in the ass.”

And I said, “If I could isolate the pain just to my ass, it would be awesome.”

And Dave said, “Well, that’s the meditation then.”

You know what’s funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You’d think we could remember finding out we weren’t immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing in airports and I think, “Aww. They’ve just been told.”

But no, we somehow gradually just seem to be able to absorb the blow. Blow not being the operative word. Greg did do quite a bit of that—just not on this particular evening.

But enough about death, I just wanted to get that bummer story out of the way at the beginning of the book because all the rest of my stories are just fun and laughs and skipping!

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The Best Awful

Delusions of Grandma

Surrender the Pink

Postcards from the Edge

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Fisher, Carrie.

Shockaholic / Carrie Fisher.—1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Fisher, Carrie. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. I. Title.

PS3556.I8115Z46 2011

818’.5403—dc23

[B] 2011024306

ISBN 978-0-7432-6482-2

ISBN 978-0-7432-6483-9 (pbk)

ISBN 978-0-7432-9849-0 (eBook)

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