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Fair-goers enjoy the nightly fireworks show 'Illumination Sensation' along the Esplanade at the State Fair of Texas on Thursday, Oct. 08, 2009. (Photo by Kye R. Lee/DMN)

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State Fair of Texas patrons wait to take the plunge on the Mega Drop ride on the Midway, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, as the Texas Star ferris wheel spins (left). (Photo by Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)

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ORG XMIT: S0401465684_STAFF 10-07-02 - digital image - Grant and Lani Griffin (left and right), 3 and 12, of Carthage, Texas, spend a quiet moment with Bridget, a Charolais heifer. It was Lani's first year showing heifers at the State Fair of Texas. The state fair runs through Oct. 20. 1008xMetro

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Dressed as a clown in Texas Longhorns team colors, Tony Sanchez (right) of Austin picks up 6-month-old Jada Rivera near the Fair Park Midway before a Saturday, October 17, 2009 game against the Oklahoma Sooners in Dallas. (Photo by G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News)

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Phyllis Williams and Darryl Gaston danced several versions of the Tango and the Milonga Thursday evening in the Hall of State at the State Fair of Texas. The two teach dance classes specializing in the Argentine Tango. (Photo by Mona Reeder/The Dallas Morning News)

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Heath Turner, (top), UT fan and Randall Williams, OU fan, both from Knox City, Texas, ride the swing at the State Fair of Texas. Shot on October 16, 2009. Turner and Williams are friends and make this trip annually. (Photo by David Woo/ Dallas Morning News)

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Lance Amos with Texas Highway patrol watches the Paul Adams Game Show affiliated with the Texas Lottery at the State Fair of Texas Tuesday October 13, 2009. (Photo by Nathan Hunsinger/ DMN)

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Alyssa Casanova (left), 12, and her godfather, Carlos Chavez, stand with large, stuffed animals as Chavez's 8-year-old daughter, Lauren Chavez, tries to wrestle one away during the last day of the State Fair of Texas October 18, 2009 at Fair Park in Dallas. (Photo by G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News)

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Oprah Winfrey looks back at the crowd while eating a corny dog at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas on Sunday, October 11, 2009. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)

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State Fair of Texas photo of the day. Kalique Glenn, 8, works his way through a rotating tube on the King's Circus ride at the 2009 State Fair of Texas. Ride operator Clayton Huntington watches. (Evans Caglage/The Dallas Morning News)

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Edna Browder, 71, of Dallas, tries to keep up with members of the Authentic Belly Dancing Entertainment Academy as the group performs on the Hall of State Stage at the State Fair of Texas Saturday October10, 2009. For the group's last dance members of the audience joined the belly dancers on stage. (For the Staff Photo a Day Project)

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The "Pirates of the Caribbean" exhibition performs under the backdrop of the Texas Star Ferris wheel at the State Fair of Texas on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. (Photo by Louis DeLuca/DMN)

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Presley Lindsay, 7, of Buffalo, Texas, enjoys cotton candy at the State Fair of Texas on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. (Photo by Sonya N. Hebert/DMN)

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Rebecca Wood of Durant, Oklahoma, poses for her wedding pictures at the Midway at the State Fair of Texas on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. Although her wedding will happen in December, she came to the fair just to take pictures. "This is just fun," she said. (Photo by Oscar Durand/DMN)

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Britney Fletcher, 18, and Erik Camarillo, 18, of Floresville, Texas, embrace on the Midway as they waited for friends to get money out of an ATM at The State Fair of Texas on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Fletcher, a UT student, and Camarillo, a Texas A&M student were sharing quality time together a day after the Texas A&M football team played a game in Arlington. (Photo by Michael Ainsworth/DMN)

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Kaycie Carter, 18, of Conroe, gives her Grand Champion steer, Silver, an air kiss goodbye after he was auctioned for a record $96,000 at the Youth Livestock Auction of Champions at the State Fair of Texas on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. (Photo by Lara Solt/DMN)

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143925 -- 10/01/09 -- The State Fair of Texas was a little damp Thursday morning as rain fell on the MIdway, but it was lighter than expected and didn't last long. Lummie Wolfe, left, and Willa Fay McCoy, both of Wylie, Texas spent their day at the fair sampling food and shopping. The two came on Senior Citizens day with their church group. (Mona Reeder/The Dallas Morning News)

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Jacob Oden, 5, of Marshall sprawls across an ice chest and lawn chair to for a nap as he waits to take part in mini hereford showing at the State Fair of Texas Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at Fair Park in Dallas. Oden, a member of the Marshall Future Farmers of America, was competing in the three- to eight-year-old category. (Photo by G.J. McCarthy/DMN)

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Fred the goat from Alvin, Texas was up early for weigh-in Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at the State Fair of Texas.

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Sporting a white cowboy hat and sunglasses, monk Gigmey Tenzin, (left), jokes with monk Norbu Samdup after they won stuffed animals on the Midway at the State Fair of Texas. He was traveling with His Holiness, the Fifth Karma Kuchen Rinpoche, of Namdroling, India. Several monks were traveling with His Holiness as he visited all the Sanghas in Canada, U.S. and Mexico. (Photo by David Woo/DMN)

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Phillip Perez sets up the mermaid that is the center of the "Winky the Whale" ride in preparation for the opening of the State Fair of Texas on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 in Dallas. (Photo by Lara Solt/DMN)

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Ridge Lozano, 3, cries after his grandmother, Marcie Agnew, took the llama he was holding onto into the show ring without him during the first day of the 2009 State Fair of Texas in Dallas Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. (Photo by Guy Reynolds/DMN)

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Jack McCoy, 6, of Parker, Texas, rides the carousel at the State Fair of Texas Saturday September 26, 2009. At the left are Nancy Tamez and her daughter Katherine Tamez, 2, of Dallas. (Photo by Courtney Perry/DMN)

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Big Tex casts a shadow from the early morning sun onto the plaza's pavement, just before the gates opened for business at the State Fair of Texas on Sunday, September 27, 2009. (Photo by John F. Rhodes /DMN)

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