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Good evening, I'm Nona Dirksemeyer, Miss Petigeen Valley.

She never knew how pretty she was.

She was this strong person who was incredibly multifaceted. When she was 13 she came to me and she said, Mom, I want to sing.

She was really enjoying life for what seemed like the first time in a long time.

Nona wants to break the cycle of child abuse through prevention and awareness.

Her helping other people gave her more self worse.

Make the children want to come to school and learn and make them want to be educated.

Miss Pettigene Valley, Nona Dirksmite.

It never really hit me that my girlfriend was a beauty queen.

She was just Nona to me.

And Nona to me.

And Nona thinks he's really fun to be with and he was very supportive of her so I was happy about it. We dated throughout our senior year high school and our freshman year college and then I moved to Fayetteville and we continued to see each other on the weekends.

She was very upset about him going to Fayetteville in the fall.

I think she felt like she was being abandoned.

And college is only an hour and a half away.

That's not that far.

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