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I do feel sorry for these people that they cannot look into our pageant more realistically and see all the benefits that we have, the chance for an educational scholarship to pre present goodwill to people. And the chance to become a young woman and a very educated

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young woman. Interviewer: Some people claim that the girls shouldn't be dressed in swimsuits and and parading themselves in that way. Uh, there have been some former beauty contestants who, who've even called it, uh, a cattle show. What's your feeling about that? I think this

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is a very narrow-minded way to look at this. It is not a cattle show. We are not parading around in swimsuits as a sex object. This is the health portion of the pageant. This is when we are looked upon as healthful young women equally proportioned.

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A beautiful smile. This is not, uh, the sex part of a show. We are wearing very conservative swimsuits. We're not parading around in bikinis, and we are rather covered up. This is just to show off the body in the most beautiful, sleek manner that it can be shown.

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Clothes, of course, would, uh, be covering up. ...Rich, but it's great. Interviewer: Uh, I want to pursue this matter of what one wears a pageant...