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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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Student Jessica Marfeo is new Miss Rhode Island

Beauty and brains is a powerful combination. Add a mountain of courage to the mix and you get Jessica Marfeo, a University of Rhode Island junior recently crowned Miss Rhode Island.

Marfeo is triple majoring in biology, elementary education and pre-physician assistant, with the goal of getting two master�s degrees, including one in public health.

She is also a cancer survivor at the tender age of 19. When she was 5, she was diagnosed with cancer of the nerve tissue behind a lung. The tumor was surgically removed, and, at 13, doctors officially declared her in remission.

Her story takes on even greater poignancy considering that her brother, Michael, died of brain cancer when...

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