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Day Gardner

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Day Deborah Rica Lipford, now Day Gardner, is a former Miss Atlantic City, (1974) who served as Miss Delaware in 1976 and made history by becoming the first African American contestant to place as a top ten semi-finalist at the Miss America 1977 pageant.

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