Word: cherilyn
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...better or worse, Hewitt's off-the-court life isn't likely to land him in the tabloids. His parents frequently join him on the road, and when at home in Adelaide, he lives in a guesthouse on their property. "Lleyton is a Jekyll and Hyde," says his mother Cherilyn. "What you see out there on that court is not him." He recently hired a hometown buddy as a one-man entourage to have someone to discuss Australian football with. (Apparently his tennis-pro girlfriend Kim Clijsters, a Belgian, isn't up to the task...
When Shaka shot himself, Franklin had been stunned. "I didn't think black people killed themselves. I thought it was a white man's disease." Shaka had been a football star at the local high school. But sidelined with an injury, he began to worry about his mother Cherilyn, who was divorced from Les and would die of cancer in 1991. On Oct. 19, 1990, Shaka picked up his father's pistol and killed himself in a bedroom of the Franklins' dream house...
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