Pasadena, Calif. - Pei-Ying Nie, a UGA alum like her sisters Ling Ling and Phonshia, had already planned to be in Pasadena this year, since Phonshia lives here now.

What luck - their alma mater is here this year too! We caught up with Nie, whose parents still live in metro Atlanta, near the Rose Bowl where volunteers were decorating floats.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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