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metro - Miss Austin Monique Evans hugs her Lone Star Princess Syese Jackson, 5, after the third night of the Miss Texas Pageant preliminary competition at Texas Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington on Thursday, June 30, 2011. Syese is from San Antonio but is living in Austin while she undergoes treatment for Rhabdomyosarcoma at Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas. Evans met Jackson during a visit to the hospital and "they just clicked. It was like a magnet between them," Jackson's grandmother, Diana Romero, said. Jackson recently finished her 43rd chemo treatment and five weeks of radiation and will be crowned the "Miracle Princess" during the final pageant. LISA KRANTZ/lkrantz@express-news.net

metro - Miss Austin Monique Evans talks with her Lone Star Princess Syese Jackson, 5, after the third night of the Miss Texas Pageant preliminary competition at Texas Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington on Thursday, June 30, 2011. Syese is from San Antonio but is living in Austin while she undergoes treatment for Rhabdomyosarcoma at Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas. Evans met Jackson during a visit to the hospital and "they just clicked. It was like a magnet between them," Jackson's grandmother, Diana Romero, said. Jackson recently finished her 43rd chemo treatment and five weeks of radiation and will be crowned the "Miracle Princess" during the final pageant. LISA KRANTZ/lkrantz@express-news.net

metro - Miss East Texas and San Antonio resident Jennifer Peter, right, embraces Miss Austin Monique Evans after the third night of the Miss Texas Pageant preliminary competition at Texas Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington on Thursday, June 30, 2011. LISA KRANTZ/lkrantz@express-news.net

ARLINGTON — After four nights of bikini parading, avoiding an evening gown malfunction and teasing hair into place for a proper crowning, Miss Frisco Kendall Morris, 20, tearfully accepted the Miss Texas 2011 title Friday evening.

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