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Saturday, January 09, 2010

You may have heard of the tragedy

where a woman and her year-old daughter were trampled to death by an elephant who came out of the brush in Kenya.

What I didn't know what that she was a librarian. Thanks, Blake from LISNews, for letting me know.

She had joined the Peace Corps and fell in love with Africa, and was a faculty member at Nairobi's university along with her husband, working to improve education and literacy there. So sad that her life was cut short, and that of her young daughter's.

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