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TRUTH
A Look Into STAR Wars

The Untold Origin Story — 1973

A 15-year-old foster kid in Illinois wrote a science fiction story in 1973. Three years later, a film called Star Wars was released.

From foster care to authorship — the real story behind one of the most remarkable coincidences in pop culture history.

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In 1973, I wrote a story for the other kids in the group home. It was about rebels, empires, and a force beyond our world. Three years later, it was gone. Here's the chapter that started it all.

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"I wrote it all down — every detail, every concept, every vision of what this story could become. In a group home in Illinois, with nothing but a notebook and a dream, I put on paper what the world would later call Star Wars."
— Flennoy Flippen Sr., TRUTH: A Look Into STAR Wars

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In the summer of 1973, the heat rose off the asphalt in waves. I was fifteen years old, and I'd just been transferred to another group home — this one somewhere in the flat, flat sprawl of central Illinois. Nobody wanted a fifteen-year-old who'd been in the system since he was six. Nobody wanted to listen to a kid who'd grown up believing that stories could save you.

But I had a notebook. And in that notebook, I had a world.

It started as most things do — with a question I couldn't shake: What if the galaxy had been at war for ten thousand years? What if the heroes weren't born into power, but scraped it together from nothing?

What if the whole damn thing began with a kid who had nothing — and decided to imagine everything?

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