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"There&amp;#x27;s been a flurry of press this morning about Nina Davuluri, the new Miss America. There always is after one of these crown-passings (like, &amp;quot;heavy is the head&amp;quot; indeed. Have you seen those things? I hope everybody has a good chiropractor). Truth be told, I&amp;#x27;m usually kinda over it before I&amp;#x27;m under it, but reading up on Miss New York Nina this morning, I couldn&amp;#x27;t help but fall totally in love with her. I just feel like she&amp;#x27;s one of us. But don&amp;#x27;t take my vague fake-friend-feelings word for it: Here are five reasons I&amp;#x27;m legitimately psyched about the new Miss America. 5) Because there are few better ways to jump-start your Monday than an energetic lady-first&amp;amp;#8212;and in this moment, Nina became the first Indian-American woman ever to win the pageant. 4) Because she punched right through the typical pageant-perfection illusion by copping to struggles with body image and bulimia. I find this so refreshing: Davuluri recently told Syracuse.com that &amp;quot;I had bad asthma, I gained a lot of weight, and I stepped back and thought: I&amp;#x27;m not going to live long unless I change.&amp;quot; And that she reviles the word &amp;quot;skinny.&amp;quot; 3) Because she kept her cool even when she missed her cue. Check it out: 2) Because you know how sometimes it&amp;#x27;s hard to picture these pristine, shiny-haired bombshells ever doing anything that resembles what we do? Here&amp;#x27;s a shot from Nina&amp;#x27;s Instagram: 1) She&amp;#x27;s a total brain and a doglover. Yes, among all the other goodness in the video, you&amp;#x27;ll find that she&amp;#x27;s studying cognitive science and brain behavior at the University of Michigan&amp;amp;#8212;and that she has a &amp;quot;half retriever, half question mark. Love him!&amp;quot; A million congrats to Nina&amp;amp;#8212;follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Photo: ABC, Instagram"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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