He gathered around a roulette table with his mum, step-dad and brothers, as well as girlfriend Rachael, and suddenly Froch looked at ease.

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Decades later, Nickmann still wasn't much of a cook, but they deviated from the usual hotel brunch on Mother's Day 1991, and had a cookout at Nickmann's San Diego home with her mom, her step-dad and one of her brothers.

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