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Miss Dominican Universe wins most photogenic prize

Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s candidate in the MissUniverse pageant on Sunday won one of the beauty contest’s special awards, inher bid to be crowned the woman most beautiful.

Sal Garcia, 24, despite not figuring amongthe 13 finalists, was chosen "Miss Photogenic Universe 2016."

A native of Maimon, in Dominican Republic’scentral region, the professional model had to raise her own money to travel tothe pageant venue in the Philippines on

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