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                                                                                     PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 5 sepTember 2017
            Outgoing Miss America: We’re more alike than different


            By WAYNE PARRY               of  airline  miles  and  living
             Associated Press            out of suitcases as she criss-
            ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) —  crosses  the  country,  meet-
            Asked  about  Democratic  ing people from all walks of
            presidential nominee Hillary  life.
            Clinton during her onstage  “I’ve  seen  world-changers
            interview at last year’s Miss  and  philanthropists  and
            America  pageant,  Savvy  charities and ordinary peo-
            Shields turned heads on the  ple who are all seeking the
            judge’s  panel  and  across  same goal,” she said, which
            the  country  by  offering  is  making  a  difference  in
            some  advice  to  both  po-  whatever  way  they  can.
            litical  parties:  Stop  arguing  “It’s  been  very  encourag-
            and start compromising.      ing to me to see that.”
            It  was  that  response  that  Riding  to  the  airport  for
            may have put her over the  a  flight  that  would  bring
            top to become Miss Ameri-    her  back  to  Atlantic  City,
            ca 2017.                     Shields  reflected  on  her
            Now, with her reign to end  year as Miss America.
            in  just  about  a  week,  the  “It’s  been  nonstop,”  she
            former  Miss  Arkansas  says  said. “It’s been a whirlwind.”
            the nation is not as divided  One of the biggest surprises   In this Aug. 30, 2017 photo, Miss America 2017 Savvy Shields walks during a welcoming ceremony
            as it may seem.              of being Miss America?       in Atlantic City, N.J., near contestants hoping to succeed her.
            “We’re  a  lot  more  similar  “I  always  thought  coffee                                                                      Associated Press
            than we think we are,” she  would hold things together    Miss America.                when you laugh more than  about  her  early  days  as
            told The Associated Press in  and keep me caffeinated,”   And  there  were  emotion-   you  thought  possible,  and  Miss  America,  saying  —  as
            one  of  her  final  interviews  she joked. “I didn’t realize it   al  moments  in  her  duties  there were moments when  many  of  her  predecessors
            before  her  successor  is  wears off.”                   as  national  ambassador  you realize the reality of the  have — that the days flew
            crowned Sept. 10.            There  were  surprising  mo-  for  the  Children’s  Miracle  situation,  with  kids  whose  by in a blur. She has to scroll
            Shields  says  she’s  been  ments  like  meeting  Baby    Network  of  hospitals  that  futures  are  not  guaran-  back  through  her  social
            in  a  different  state  every  Savvy, a young girl in North   included  many  visits  with  teed,” she said.       media accounts to remem-
            48  hours  for  the  past  12  Dakota   whose   parents   young patients.              Savvy (short for Savannah)  ber much about the begin-
            months, logging thousands  named  her  after  the  new    “There   were    moments  does  not  remember  much  ning of her reign.q
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