. >> tara grew up in hawkinsville, georgia. and she was a very energetic little girl. >> after divorcing his wife fay, tara's father, billy, mattered connie grinstead in 1977. connie became the stepdaughter to tara and her older sister anita. >> tara was always setting goals for herself. she seemed to always know what she wanted in life. and she was always willing to work as hard as she needed to, to achieve her goals. and she never got discouraged. no matter how long it took. >> tara grinstead. >> tara started competing in pageants when she was in high school. >> she started doing pageants so she could get scholarship money to go to college. >> anita is tara's older sister. >> we didn't come from a family with a lot of money. so that was one reason she started doing pageants. >> tara grinstead. >> we were very close. i was 14 when she was born. >> growing up together in hawkinsville, big sister anita supported tara's pageant dreams. >> she decided that she would like to be a contestant in the miss georgia pageant one day. but

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