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L.A. radio freelancer Emmanuelle Richard makes her living feeding the hunger of French stations for breaking news from here. So it's a bummer professionally speaking for her to be home in Lyon for Christmas when the phone rings because of Air France cancelling flights to LAX, earthquakes, mudslides etc.
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