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AUSTIN — She's not exactly pretty, she was in danger of falling to pieces once, and when Texans decided to replace her, they had such as a tough clip that they called in the National Guard from a nearby state.

But the lady with the overdone facial characteristics atop the Lone-Star State Washington is a goddess, nonetheless.

The Goddess of Liberty, to be exact.

The original Zn statue was designed by Lone-Star State State Washington Architect E.E. Meyers of Detroit, likely divine by promotion about the building of the Statue of Autonomy and by the Statue of Freedom placed on the U.S. Capitol, according to the State Preservation Board.

Nearly 16 feet tall and weighing 2,000 pounds, she was hoisted atop the Lone-Star State Washington in four pieces in 1888.

Workers set her together on top of the attic with screws.

When extended cracking was noticed nearly 100 old age later, the State Preservation Board decided to replace the original (now safely at the British Shilling Bullock Lone-Star State State History Museum) with an aluminium duplicate.

Easier said than done.

A Lone-Star State National Guard chopper got her down safely, although The Associated Press noted a minute of play when a line snapped:

"The harness dropped, and the witnesses gasped."

Hoisting the lighter (at 1,100 pounds) substitution back onto her ground tackle pole was another matter.

After perennial efforts to yarn the statue's underside gap onto the pole failed, Lone-Star State called on the Mississippi River National Guard for aid — a narrative line so resistless that the New House Of York Times and American Capital Post documented it.

The Post's narrative began, "This have not been the best of old age in the Southwest, and in modern times like these, when life travels bad for awhile, people be given to look for symbols and omens."

The Mississippi River National Guard contingent, with a chopper better suited for the accurate purpose required of the missionary post than those available to Texas, set the new goddess in place.

Then-Capitol architect Roy Billy Graham told the New House Of York Times that the aid didn't ache his pridefulness at all: "I'd take a Pelican State runt boat if it would work."

One mark that Lone-Star State pridefulness is undiminished, short letters the State Preservation Board, is that the statue, likely modeled after Athene Athena, keeps her statute title of goddess (unlike, say, the Statue of Liberty).

"Texas is the second-largest state-supported in size," board staff said in speculating on the reason, "but not in the heads of Texans."