queens usher people to their seats. Some sell raf- fle tickets. Others sit in the audience poised and perfect-looking. Many of them are making an appearance to fulfill mandatory community- service hours required in order to keep the crown and cash prizes that came along with their titles. I am wedged between
Roberts’s and Thalia Mai- gue-Bendorf ’s family and friends. The Roberts hold cut-out signs of Roberts’s face affixed to yard sticks. Thalia’s loved ones whoop and holler and chant her name. I can’t help feeling ner-
vous for Roberts, Magra- cia, and Murphy. I find myself rooting for them. At around 6:45,
Marina Inserra takes the stage. “I am so sorry for the late start,” she apolo- gizes to the audience.
to Diamond Alexander who reads them aloud. They are each given 20 seconds to answer. Roberts answers
a question on student debt gracefully. Mur- phy s tumbles when asked if she supported the Keystone Pipeline. It’s unclear if she knows what it is. She mutters something about climate change being bad before leaving the stage. Danielle Di Lorenzo
“One of our judges got sick earlier in the day and had to go to the hospital.” The lights dim and
all 15 contestants take the stage along with Dia- mond Alexander, Miss San Diego, and McKenna
Contestants clap as Chelsea Magracia (far right) is announced as Miss San Diego 2015. The evening contin-
Faydo, Miss Outstanding Teen 2014. The girls per- form their opening dance routine while the current title-holders shimmy around the stage holding their crowns in their out- stretched arms.
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ues with a few glitches. The music is not queued up for a few of the talent routines. Contestants are left staring blindly into the audience while the problems are fixed. The baton-twirler drops her baton and it rolls toward the back of the stage. She manages to recover grace- fully. At one point during Murphy’s talent number she gets wrapped up in her jump rope. During the swimsuit
competition, Roberts wears a black strappy bikini that looks like something borrowed
from the wardrobe department of the Fifty Shades of Grey film set. The most stomach-churn- ing event of the night are
is asked whether she agrees wi th Donald Trump’s idea of building a large wall at the Mexico/ U.S. border. In her elegant black gown with crystal neckline, she addresses the audience, saying, “Yes I agree. We are two different countries and we need to be separate.”
At one point during Murphy’s talent number she gets wrapped up in her jump rope.
the onstage questions. The contestants’ nervous energy is palpable as they pull questions from a fish bowl and hand them off
I expect a reaction. It comes in the form of a man in one of the front rows clapping vigorously to her response.
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