"There's a lot of us who have ties to people who directly lost everything, lost family members," says former Miss Hawaii Kiana Yamat. "I'm just grateful that my family are OK."
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R’Bonney Nola is the newest Filipina-American beauty queen who will compete for the Miss USA 2022 crown.
She was named Miss Texas USA 2022 at Hilton Houston Post Oak on July 2.
On Instagram, she expressed her two cents about the milestone.
"My heart is filled with joy (heart emoji)," she wr