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“I was like a freak within my family,” she says. “My mother’s very quick and everything, but I was always analyzing, a very intense kid, a top-heavy type of deal. My mother always thought it was that Jewish thing. I don’t know where you get that, dear. It must be that Jewish thing. Although there’s no real evidence of it in my father.”

An instinctive knack for wordplay blossomed in her journals and poetry, which she began writing at eleven: “My nose runs / My mind follows.” Or “You took my breath away and now I want it back.” She wrote a poem about movie stars’ children that actress Joan Hackett gave to Andy Warhol, who printed it in Interview. Later, he published a short story she wrote. “I wanted to be Dorothy Parker. I found out she was half Jewish like me, really small, had dark brown eyes, dark brown hair, very verbal. She had that Jewish thing too.” – Foxy, Fast-Talking Carrie Fisher, Cosmopolitan, April 1989