My boyfriend, Thurman, the head basketball coach for Southern University, was off on a recruiting trip, but right then I missed Dad more than Thurman.

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" He adds: "I respect my dad's views, but I am certainly more liberal than he is about this.

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"No one in the world I admire more than my dad, " she wrote in another tweet.

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More than once I tried to ask my dad for an Atari game console when I was a kid.

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It came from the heart, and I think you touched on who my dad was more than some other people in basketball who had been around him for years.

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I've said in this campaign many more times than I know the media, who has followed it, wanted me to say it, that my dad was a milk truck driver and my mom was a secretary.

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