France 3 - Junior Miss Pageant

The judges huddled. Madame Claire argued for Chloé (“She has presence ”). The producer from France 3, a woman with gray braids and kind eyes, said nothing until the end.

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Zoé, age ten, was the least likely contender. She had arrived with a rip in her sash and a ladybug crawling on her shoulder. Her talent was not piano, not ballet, but mime —a forgotten art her grandfather had taught her. The other girls practiced jazz hands and breathy renditions of “La Vie en Rose.” Zoé practiced being a sunflower trapped in a gust of wind. The judges huddled

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