It's very surreal. When we were little we would watch the pageant as a family, and my sister and I would go into the utility room and play Miss America in our heels.

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

This has ripped the family. The parents – they're devastated.

She didn't know her family, just went from house to house in the community to live.

[Living near the Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs, Miss. Dorothy and her family was used to storms.] It happens quite often, ... usually within two days everything is back to normal.

I love children, being a future elementary school teacher.