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Queen Pia back for 1st time

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MISS Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach returned to the country for the first time on Saturday since she won the title last Dec. 20 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“I’m so excited. I wasn’t able to sleep last night,” Wurtzbach said upon arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on board Philippine Airlines flight PR538. She will be in the country until Jan. 28.

“Every time I think about my trip back here I tear up a little bit because I feel like it has been so long and I have so many things to share. I can’t wait to share it all with you,” the 26-year-old Filipino-German beauty queen said.

HOME IS MISS UNIVERSE. Pia Wurtzbach arrived back in the country for the first time since she won the Miss Universe beauty pageant in the United States last month. Story on Page A2. DANNY PATA

Wurtzbach, however, said she was saving her stories for a press conference on Sunday.

On Monday, she is expected to pay a courtesy call on Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada and receive a Citation of Excellence from the Senate before a homecoming parade from Manila to Makati City to Quezon City.

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On Tuesday, she will call on President Benigno Aquino III at Malacañang Palace and the mayors of Makati and Quezon City. 

Wurtzbach is also set to visit the House of Representatives on the same day where she is expected to be conferred the Congressional Medal of Distinction.

Speaker Sonny Belmonte will lead legislators in giving Wurtzbach the highest honor the House can bestow on anyone in a non-political field in addition to a bill exempting her paying taxes on her winnings from the Miss Universe pageant.

“For 42 years, we have a drought, we were never able to get the Miss Universe, and so it’s time that we should honor her and give her this tax exemption,” Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel on Saturday.

Rodriguez is hopeful that the bill will be passed before the Filipino-German beauty visits Congress although the House has had problems mustering a quorum in the past few days apparently because of lawmakers’ preparations for the elections.

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