Why Amelia Dimoldenberg avoids me at every party

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As the old saying goes — don’t meet your heroes. I’m not about to pretend Amelia Dimoldenberg was a great hero of mine, but she was someone I admired from a comfortable distance, and probably always wanted to befriend rather than interview.

She was a journalist after all, and even if she had found fame of her own, it wasn’t quite at the same level of ce…