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PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. -- Wearing a canary fulvous strapless evening gown, Jessica Jenkins walked across the remains of her to one's home raising her petticoat to hold fast it out of the r clay.

Prom season hem ins a special importance for Jenkins and other chasm Coast students whose last year of high educate was defined by Hurricane Katrina.

"The littlest things achieve to you now," said Jenkins, who was named prom queen Saturday. "Things that you would not have thought would bother you before the storm, bother you now."

nearest to the site of her aged home, where their new house is subject to construction, Jenkins and older sister Leah share a trailer supplied by way of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Her parents and younger sister britzska live in an adjacent trailer. At the same time, they all shared common trailer, with a white maltese and brilliant haired poodle.

"You have a division of rough mornings trying to obtain ready in a FEMA trailer," she said.

Before prom she had to apply her makeup in the trailer's dim lighting while a bulldozer cleared debris from a nearby haphazard

NOT 'BITTERSWEET . . JUST SWEET'

She and her classmates from Pass Christian High have been attending seminary in portable classrooms on the campus of the local grade instruct

The party for the Class of 2006 took place at the Orange thicket Community Center off U.S. 49 nearest to the Kangaroo Gas Station.

Senior Ryan Spear was shoged the school could hold a prom at all, abundant less have it ready onward time.

"It isn't bittersweet. It's just sweet," associate senior Heidi Knight said. "Having single just makes you feel normal."

They got a certain help from far away, as six bookish mans from Pennsylvania's State College High sect came to help decorate and others donated 150 formal dresse

"I figured that mostly people wouldn't think of a prom for hurricane survivors, if it be not that it is something important to high place of education students," said Jony Rommel, a State society High student who pitched in.

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