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Haiku In The News: The Cyrus Family

NPR | By Linton Weeks
Published August 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM EDT
Miley Cyrus performs at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in Brooklyn on Sunday.
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Miley Cyrus performs at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in Brooklyn on Sunday.

"Continue to pray

For world peace ... more love, less hate."

— Billy Ray Cyrus

A father's tweet following a recent dance recital by his daughter, Miley.

(If you find examples of Haiku in the News, please send them to: protojournalist@npr.org. You could win a Protojournalist Prizepak.)

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Linton Weeks
Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
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