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PASADENA, Calif. - Who could blame Sandra Brockman for strutting through the crowd at the Rose Parade in a pair of red shorts?
With temperatures in the high 50s, Southern Californians wearing hoodies and stocking caps shivered around her. But Brockman, 60, basked in the sunlight. She had come to the 131st annual Rose Parade from blustery central Wisconsin with her 85-year-old aunt, Helen Haydock, whose hometown of Wisconsin Rapids declared a snow emergency this week.
After Haydock's husband, a man with whom she had traveled the world, died in June, and the Wisconsin Badgers made the Rose Bowl to face off against the Oregon Ducks, she decided to come to Pasadena to see in person the floats she had admired on television for years.
"Of course, I support Wisconsin,"
