{"id":120378,"date":"2009-12-31T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2009-12-31T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:53:34","slug":"r-i-p-michelle-lang-%e2%80%93-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/120378","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Michelle Lang \u2013 Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"R.I.P.<\/a><\/p>\n

You can pay your respect to Michelle<\/a> at this Facebook group “R.I.P. Michelle Lang – Journalist”<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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An excerpt from “Calgary journalist’s fiance mourns love of his life<\/a>“,<\/p>\n

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“It didn’t take long for Lang and Louie to fall in love.<\/p>\n

They met in Calgary at a group dim sum gathering, knowing their mutual friend thought they should date.<\/p>\n

They did a few weeks later, talking effortlessly for three hours at a cocktail bar, he recalled.<\/p>\n

“The conversation never stopped and it was never awkward. It was at that moment I was like wow, she’s kind of amazing,” he said of their first date 18 months ago.<\/p>\n

Lang was smitten by Louie, said her friend Robin Summerfield, the subject of Lang’s matchmaking.<\/p>\n

After Lang and Louie were together for six weeks, Summerfield teased her friend about the new romance and asked whether she was in love.<\/p>\n

“You know, I think I am,” she told Summerfield, a former Herald reporter.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dear Michelle,<\/p>\n

Like many others, I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting you. And now I can only get to know you through the beautiful digital footprint you’ve left us. Your work ethics, deep dedication to journalism and high standard are what I will aspire to achieve when I do my own reporting.<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Kempton<\/p>\n

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More in this earlier blog entry, “Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang and four soldiers killed in Afghanistan<\/a><\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

Note: Here is a link to Michelle’s last blog entry<\/a> in “Afghanistan Dispatches<\/a>” where you can read more of the blog entries and the related newspaper articles. And an Calgary Herald editorial, “We’ll miss our Michelle<\/a><\/strong>“<\/p>\n

Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Love, media, people, politics, social media, World, World Affairs \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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