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Rhode Island’s Olivia Culpo named Miss USA

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 05, 2012

Looking at her face, it was impossible to say exactly what was going through Olivia Culpo’s mind. The 20-year-old cellist from Rhode Island had just been crowned Miss USA — beating 50 other beauty queens for the right to represent the United States in the Miss Universe pageant — and her eyes were wide with a mix of terror, ecstasy, and disbelief. And, really, who can blame her?

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