Miss Minnesota Nitaya Panemalaythong, center, poses with 10 of her family members at home in Savage, Minnesota in January 2012. The first-time pageant competitor was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after her parents fled their native Laos. (MicKenna Ewen/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)
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