EU rambles + Day 26

You know, if you're not familiar with the EU, a good many casual statements about SW can be very confusing. 

I've reasonably familiar with it these days, but at first I was pretty much 'wtf?!'  In fact, my sole encounter with it until this year was about fifteen years ago, when I picked up my stepbrother's copy of The Courtship of Princess Leia.

MY REACTION:  But she's practically engaged to Han!  How can this be?

(I gather that the latter, at least, is a not uncommon response to that particular book.)

Then, of course, I discovered Wookieepedia.  So I looked up Leia. 

MY REACTION:  So she didn't use Skywalker ... huh, I always figured Han would take her name, even (particularly!) if she kept Organa.  Oh well, let me read ... hm, that's not really the impression I got, but okay ... wonder why they did that ... ooh, politics!  WAIT WTF I DON'T EVEN OMG MAKE IT STOP WAIT HER SON DID WHAT?

(Discovering the entire EU via Wookieepedia is perhaps unnecessarily cruel.)

Anyway, two things I kept running across that befuddled me until I acquainted myself with the EU.

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Day 26:  What is the most heartbreaking moment?

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