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- ↑ "Meet Miss Kentucky 1998". Miss America Organization. Archived from the original on May 3, 1999. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
- ↑ "Former Titleholders". Archived from the original on 2010-12-10. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
