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Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco jokes about Internet report of her untimely demise
Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco reprised an old Mark Twain line following a Facebook post with untimely news.
“Reports of my early demise are greatly exaggerated,” Blanco joked Thursday in a phone call to an Advocate reporter to dispel the Internet report.
“It’s the first time that the Internet has killed me,” she also joked.
One of Blanco's daughters provided a screen shot of a Facebook post on Tuesday that contained a photo of the former governor along with a notice that she had died. The woman's Facebook page identifies her as living in Crowley. The Facebook post was no longer on her page on Thursday.
Read more: https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/article_8986a1fc-7d7a-11e9-8482-2fcae2abe17c.html
