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I knew a "pageant family" when I was growing up, but it was nothing compared to the spectacles called pageants today. Back then, Miss America was the ultimate of pageant scenes. There weren't the hundreds of different pageant cricuits like there are today. Most of those operating today are money-making schemes only. Every child gets a trophy. The parents spend thousands of dollars to buy their kid a 6 ft. dust collector. Back then, daughters dreamed of following in mom's footsteps for Miss America. The mom I knew had actually represented Kansas for Miss America in the '50s. Her daughter also competed in her time, & I'm positive any daughter she may have had was also brought up in the culture. Sure, their little girls dressed up for fun & played for hours with their Barbies as beauty queens. That was all there was, at the time. But something happened with Patsy Ramsey's generation. Once they'd had their "day in the sun" competing in pageants, they...
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