Finding Emilie
Description
This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Nine months after Alan and Emilie made it official, Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux, received a terrible phone call from Alan. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad and Robert about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again.
Then, at the end of the episode, and a full decade later, we catch up with Emilie and talk about her art, her heart, a dog named London, and the movie The Fifth Element.
EPISODE CITATIONS -
Exhibitions: Emilie L. Gossiaux - Other-Worlding (https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/other-worlding/) at the Queen’s County Museum, through April, 7th, 2024.
Video: A video of Emilie Gossiaux painting with the BrainPort (https://youtu.be/1xYi9oZMVWI?si=kDBtRlVE62g9AI0V)
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I also came here to say really, no mention at all of WTF happened to Alan??
what about Allen? I ceryainly hope there is more follow up. i almost want to be done with Radiolab if this is the story in its entirety. There must be more
What..... what the fuck happened to Alan?!? This guy is wholly devoted to Emilie before and after the accident, figures out a way to communicate with her, saves her from either being harvested for organs or put in a nursing home, and then revisiting the story 10 years later, he's not mentioned -at all-??? Seriously wtf