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This is a photo we found while cleaning out a farm in Bluffton Indiana about 14 years ago,somewhere I have the newspaper articles about this girl,but she is from Bluffton if I remember right and won the 1948 Jr.Miss America compitition.
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Strange to think that this cute young girl is now more than likely an eighty year old woman... If she's still alive... Wow, am I a wet blanket! lol...
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