Seeing Erin Jenkinson win Miss Sanilac County really inspires me. It seems puzzling that I would choose this one person from who won a county no one really knows how to pronounce, but this one person really showed me what being involved in pageants was about.
Erin attends GVSU and has done her rounds in Miss Outstanding Teen and is now on to the Miss competitions. When I met her at Miss Spirit of the State, she told me that she has been competing for two years in Miss programs and has never placed. I was really shocked because she was so poised and seemed to fit what they wanted for a title holder. But later on that night she placed 4th runner up. I honestly think that all of the girls were more excited for Erin placing than Lauren actually winning (I think that the same goes for Lauren, she was more excited for Erin than for herself).
That evening I was on Facebook and I saw one wall post that stood out to me. I don't know who this person is, or how they know Erin, but they said that they expected great things from her this year and they could foresee her winning a title in 2012/2013.
No more than 3 weeks later did this person's prophecy come true... Erin won Miss Sanilac County. When I saw her pictures on Facebook I literally squealed with joy for her. I had only known her for a few weeks, but I could tell how much this really meant to her. Every girl that I had met in a pageant that knew Erin was bombing her wall with congratulatory messages. We all could not be more excited for her.
She is a great inspiration to me because being dedicated to a program for two years that you haven't placed in is very hard. During those years leading up to her win she has done so much for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals around her, and she has shown her bright personality to the pageantry community.
She really does inspire me and I hope that I can inspire others the way she does.
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