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"Hi! I&amp;#039;ve just read my first batch of Pretty Amazing applications! I am ridiculously blown away by the awesomeness of Seventeen readers! We&amp;#039;re going to start highlighting a Pretty Amazing Girl of the Week on our Facebook page, so you can meet some of the girls too! When I announced the contest in our March issue, I got a few e-mails from girls who were upset about the contest\u2014and it&amp;#039;s important to me that we clear the air. In my editor&amp;#039;s letter, I explained what I&amp;#039;m looking for in a Pretty Amazing winner. I wrote, &amp;quot;The rules are the same\u2014yes, you have to be pretty to be on the cover, but even more important, you have to have an amazing story to tell.&amp;quot; A couple of girls wrote to say they&amp;#039;re mad about the &amp;quot;pretty&amp;quot; part of Pretty Amazing. But I want to be clear: At Seventeen, we believe there is not one cookie-cutter idea of beauty. As you can see every month in our pages, we show an incredible diversity of girls: all shapes, sizes, and skin tones. This contest is different from other model contests\u2014this isn&amp;#039;t a competition about looks. We&amp;#039;re looking at all the amazing accomplishments that give a girl confidence, poise, and a real sense of purpose in the world. That is what gives you the inner glow that comes through on the outside, too. The entire goal of Pretty Amazing is to celebrate our readers for all their awesomeness\u2014not to put narrow limits on what that should look like. If you haven&amp;#039;t entered the contest yet, there&amp;#039;s still time! You could score a $20,000 scholarship from Neutrogena. Tell us what makes YOU Pretty Amazing! XOXO, \u2014A. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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