Little Big Girls — Janice Daugharty

Little beauty-queen, Temple, has a loose tooth, and her mother Cammie's greatest fear is that it will drop out tonight during their latest beauty pageant. They are at the only beauty shop in Cammie's hometown, owned by hair dresser Chanell, one of Cammie's high-school friends. Another friend's daughter is there to get her hair done too. Inwardly, Cammie and Linda Gay are feverish with fear that the other's daughter might win. But Cammie and Temple are pros, having been on the beauty pageant circuit most of Temple's life. Will the judges be looking for preciousness or the little big-girl look?