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Retired teacher Manuel Colon Santiago, neighbor of the newly crowned Miss Universe Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza at her hometown of Salinas, Puerto Rico, shows a local newspaper with the headline: "Zuleyka our Miss Universe", Monday, July 24, 2006. People in this coastal town partied in the streets all night long to celebrate the crowning of the 18-year-old girl, after she was named Miss Universe late Sunday in Los Angeles. Several people in Salinas said Rivera, who grew up in a working-class neighborhood of small houses and narrow streets, never forgot her roots. (AP Photo/Herminio Rodriguez)
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