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Love/Hate for Week 15

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I was 7 years old when the original "Star Wars" was released and, as often is the case, what was important to me at age 7 became really important to me -- beloved, even -- now that I'm ... older. I've made all my kids watch "A New Hope," and while there are varying degrees of appreciation from them (it can move a bit slow for the Snapchat generation) they all enjoyed it much more than you'd think they would for a movie that came out in 1977. I can't tell you how much joy I felt the other night when I came home and my wife and 6-year-old twins were watching the last 20 minutes of "The Empire Strikes Back," which was on cable somewhere.