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Miss Haiti gives hope to devastated country
SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK — The first Miss Haiti in 22 years is not the typical contestant you'd find in a beauty pageant.
She is a young lawyer who speaks four languages and is happy to be able to help her country after the horrific earthquake that devastated the impoverished Caribbean nation last January.
Sarodj Bertin had a privileged childhood in Puerto Principe until age 9, when her mother, lawyer and opposition leader Mireille Durocher Bertin, was gunned down after announcing the creation of a political party that would compete with that of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the upcoming elections.
Her father then moved Sarodj and his other children to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where the 24-year-old beauty, who considered her mother her idol, studied law and worked for the International Alliance for Haiti's Recovery.
Nevertheless, she was obsessed with the Miss Universe pageant.
After the