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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A plucky Australian schoolboy who
asked a former Miss Universe to his school dance, only
to be rebuffed, has finally had his dream date over
lunch.

Daniel Dibley, 17, needed a partner for the school
dance in the Australian country town of Bathurst, west
of Sydney, and he decided to aim high.

He wrote to Australia's best-known beauty queen,
Jennifer Hawkins, to ask her to the dance, and was
stunned when the 2004 Miss Universe accepted.

But in a decision that would break a schoolboy's
heart, Hawkins later pulled out of the date because
the overwhelming publicity had overshadowed plans for
the end-of-year dance, which is for students in their
final year of high school.

Instead, the Seven television network said Hawkins
visited Dibley's Bathurst High School on Tuesday for a
private lunch date with Daniel, and to speak to the
school assembly, where she apologized for all the
fuss.

"I didn't want you guys to think I didn't want to come
to Bathurst, or I didn't want come to the formal
(dance)," Hawkins, now a television presenter, told
the school assembly.

"I did. It just became too big. I just wanted a
low-key thing."

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The fact that she said yes is really cool

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Daniel Dibley, I salute you!

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