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1:20Now PlayingPageant competitor with Down syndrome makes history
Sep 22, 2017·652 views
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1:20Now PlayingSue Cameron never thought she’d see her daughter, 20-year-old Alyssa Patrias, compete in a Miss Michigan preliminary pageant.
TAYLOR, MI -- Sue Cameron never thought she’d see her daughter, 20-year-old Alyssa Patrias, compete in a Miss Michigan preliminary pageant.
Patrias was born with Down syndrome and a heart defect that required open-heart surgery at just 10 weeks old.
So when the Miss America pageant—associated with Miss Michigan — gave the thumbs up for her to compete in the Miss Downriver pageant on Aug. 26, Cameron, 64, was stunned and moved to tears. Her daughter would accomplish something that had never been done before.
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