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Beauty Queen v. Blogger

by christina in April 22nd, 2009   
Topics: Celebrity, Media, New fame     Tags: , , , , ,

Miss California is convinced Perez Hilton cost her the crown.
“If I had any other question, I know I would have won,” Carrie Prejean told Fox News.

Here’s the problem — well, one of the problems.
Carrie is speaking in the past perfect tense, describing an action (the pageant interview) that happened before a related event (her analysis [...]

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