Edgell said one of the early investigators on the case who spoke with her friends and colleagues described Mirack as an all-American girl.

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Evert was the All-American girl from sunny Florida, blonde and lithe.

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CDOs to a Hollywood madame masquerading as a wholesome, all-American girl.

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Perhaps even more so because I have been listening to the dialogue about how to make America more post-racial -- mostly as it pertains to black and white culture -- for so long that it never occurred to me that an Asian immigrant family might cry foul when their son fell in love with an all-American girl like me.

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Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards are the principal characters, All-American Johnny Rico and the over-achiever girl he loves more than she loves him, Carmen Ibanez.

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This is the creep of the culture war into all areas of American life: science, media, charity, even the Girl Scouts.

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