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When they called “Willowdean Dickson,” her legs turned to oatmeal.

The pageant itself was a parade of pale pinks and spray tans. Girls with Barbie proportions glided across the stage, twirling batons and singing about world peace. The judges—three women with hair lacquered into helmets—wrote notes with the grim focus of surgeons. Dumplin-

Not a mean laugh. A real one. It came from a little girl in the front row, a girl with pigtails and a face full of freckles, who was clutching a pageant program. The girl’s mother tried to shush her, but the girl just laughed harder, a bright, bell-like sound. When they called “Willowdean Dickson,” her legs turned

Dumplin’ held up a beat-up kazoo. “It’s a tribute. Lucy used to play ‘Yellow Rose of Texas’ on this thing at every family barbecue. She was terrible. Amazingly terrible. But she never cared who was listening.” It came from a little girl in the