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"Denise Garrido&amp;apos;s dream came true on Saturday, May 25, when she was crowned the 2013 Miss Universe Canada winner in Toronto. But that dream quickly turned into a nightmare when pageant officials informed her less than 24 hours later that they were stripping   her of her new title -- because of a so-called &amp;quot;typo.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAccording to Miss Universe Canada director Denis Davila, an error had been made the night before when an employee input the judges&amp;apos; handwritten scores into a computer. The mistake had significantly affected the outcome of the pageant; Garrido, 26, hadn&amp;apos;t finished first, second, or even third. In fact, her scores put her in fourth place, the third runner-up to the real winner, Riza Santos, also 26.\r\n&amp;quot;My heart sank,&amp;quot; Garrido told the Toronto Star after the typo had been reported. &amp;quot;I was so sad.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nSantos, for her part, has mixed feelings about winning under such awkward circumstances. &amp;quot;It was quite a surprise. It&amp;apos;s only starting to sink in now,&amp;quot; she told Yahoo! Shine of the bittersweet victory. Of the controversy, she added: &amp;quot;I think it&amp;apos;s unfortunate and hard to handle, but [Denise Garrido has] been very gracious and [is] handling it very well.&amp;quot;\r\nMiss Universe Canada spokesman Andrew Lopez told the Star that an independent party (lawyer Nick Macos of Black Sutherland LLP) usually inputs the results into a computer. However, Macos was unavailable this year, so officials assigned the task to a pageant employee. The error was found on Sunday by a third-party audit.\r\n\r\nBeauties of Canada, which produces the competition, issued a mea culpa for the mistake on Sunday, May 26, after Garrido had been stripped of her crown and sash. &amp;quot;We would like to offer our sincere apology to Denise Garrido for this human error discovered while validating the results,&amp;quot; a statement on the pageant&amp;apos;s website read.\r\n&amp;quot;Miss Garrido&amp;apos;s example and grace represents all we look for at Miss Universe Canada,&amp;quot; the statement continued. &amp;quot;We have no doubt she will continue to succeed in her endeavors and we wish her well. We truly hope she remains a strong part of the Miss Universe Canada Organization.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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