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    Now it’s my mom’s turn to shine

    Oct 16, 2019 2 minutes
    Women compete in the Ms. Senior Sweetheart Pageant of America in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 2014. Ida White (seated) of Florida was the winner.

    One by one they glide across the civic center stage. Their smiles are as perky as their hair-sprayed curls. These dozen women – age 60 or better – hope to be crowned Ms. Senior Missouri USA. 

    The woman stealing center stage is Mom. I spot her dangly rhinestone earrings. We’d searched for “pageant earrings” when she visited me in Boston two months ago. “I need something that will

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