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I'd just come off the night city desk and was adjusting to working as a reporter again, when I woke up one Saturday morning to learn that the leading Republican candidate for governor had been in a plane crash. Nobody had much information; Helena is about 100 miles from Missoula, but a photographer and I jumped in a car and headed off to the crash scene.

From the Missoulian, April 10, 1988

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