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12-year-old celebrates once-in-a-lifetime birthday today

SPRING GROVE – If Mallory Taylor had her way, she’d wear a prom dress every day.

For her birthday today – a fortuitous collection of 12s – her parents, Jim and Susan Taylor, planned to surprise her with a “quite glamorous” dress in purple, her favorite color.

Even on a typical weekday, after getting home from school, Mallory was dressed in the holiday spirit in a red velvet dress with a sequined belt and, until it got too itchy, a sequined band around her head.

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