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"  Miley Cyrus bounds into her spacious backyard in California&amp;#039;s palm-tree-studded San Fernando Valley wearing a figure-flaunting half-shirt, Daisy Duke cutoffs, and studded platform sneakers, a look so redneck-skimpy that by nightfall, the bloggers will have crucified her for it. Not that she cares. Cyrus has never been in better shape, both physically and emotionally, a 19-year-old firecracker with washboard abs, a smoky laugh, and a filthy mouth who these days bears about as much resemblance to her former Disney-star self as a Mojito resembles a lemonade. Nipping at Cyrus&amp;#039; heels is a tumbling pack of four rescue dogs, while a fifth, a bulldog named Ziggy, rests inside. Earlier, Ziggy ate two Jacquie Aiche bracelets right off her wrist. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a stubborn little bitch, that one,&amp;quot; Cyrus says, her voice tangy and redolent of her native Nashville. &amp;quot;She doesn&amp;#039;t listen to me. She&amp;#039;s in love with Liam. She loves me when he&amp;#039;s gone, but she totally ate my diamonds on purpose. She was pooping them out all morning!&amp;quot; The Liam she refers to is Cyrus&amp;#039; newly minted fianc\u00E9, Australian import Liam Hemsworth, the strapping 22-year-old star of The Hunger Games and her boyfriend for the past three years. The pair live together in the 8,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa Cyrus&amp;#039; family once lived in. She moved back in last year when her parents relocated two doors down. Cyrus&amp;#039; mother, Tish, did most of the decorating, which tends toward oversize Eastern-influenced pieces; sturdy tables made of reclaimed wood; a giant, modern sofa that Cyrus and Hemsworth &amp;quot;sleep on all the time&amp;quot;; and spiritual touches like a stone Buddha and painted-wooden crosses that Cyrus has collected in her travels. Here, sur-rounded by towering trees and safely ensconced inside her palatial residence, Cyrus enjoys utter privacy. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s kind of like a black hole. And no one is going to fuck with me when P. Diddy lives right across the street,&amp;quot; she laughs.          Cyrus remains incredibly close with her parents \u2014 her father is country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus \u2014 and cuts across Bob Hope&amp;#039;s widow&amp;#039;s lawn to access their gate. &amp;quot;She gave me permission,&amp;quot; she says, sweetly. &amp;quot;If Liam is traveling and I&amp;#039;m feeling creeped out, I can go to my parents&amp;#039;. Or I&amp;#039;ll walk over there in the morning for coffee. It&amp;#039;s really weird [sleeping] in my parents&amp;#039; room. Now it&amp;#039;s my room, and Liam is at my dad&amp;#039;s sink and I&amp;#039;m at my mom&amp;#039;s. It&amp;#039;s really strange, but also really cool. The first time I ever met or hung out with Liam was here. When he first moved to America, he didn&amp;#039;t have any family here, so our family became his. This is where all our memories are being made.&amp;quot; Though she won&amp;#039;t divulge exactly how her fianc\u00E9 popped the question, she admits it happened at home and was a &amp;quot;complete surprise.&amp;quot; No one, including her parents, knew it was coming. &amp;quot;I had no input,&amp;quot; Cyrus says of her engagement ring, a 3.5-carat Neil Lane diamond set in a yellow-gold band with delicate filigree detailing. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d been kind of talking about [getting engaged], and I saw something like it online at one point and thought it was really pretty, but I usually wear rose gold. I just love that it&amp;#039;s old and has a story. And I&amp;#039;m happy because it doesn&amp;#039;t look like anything else I wear.&amp;quot;  Read Miley&amp;#039;s full interview when the September issue of Marie Claire hits newsstands on September 17. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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