It turns out that my sister's dentist's brother is Paul Ens, the head of StarWars.com (and all of the LucasFilm websites, including LucasArts.com, IndianaJones.com, etc). Thus, when my sister mentioned her upcoming road trip to California, her dentist said she'd talk to her brother about the possibility of a tour of Skywalker Ranch, the mythical headquarters of LucasFilm, somewhere north of San Francisco.

(Okay, so it wasn't quite that easy. Thousands of dollars of dental work later, my sister and her dentist had built up enough of a relationship for the offer to be made. Don't think you can book yourself in for a cleaning and suddenly find yourself breaking into George Lucas's office.)

 

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