Maryland teen collects hundreds of prom dresses for New Orleans school

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'Like a dream come true'
Maryland teen collects hundreds of prom dresses for New Orleans school


By AVIS THOMAS-LESTER
Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Seventeen-year-old Marisa West was shopping for her prom dress last month when she started thinking about the high school students in New Orleans who are still dealing with the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Would they be able to have their proms, she wondered? Would they have anything to wear?

Among the fancy dresses at the department store was born a campaign to collect 100 prom dresses and ship them south. Less than six weeks later, Marisa's Prom Dresses for New Orleans had received more than 425 dresses, with one even promised from a former Miss America.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/3744442.html

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1. Great story.

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