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UK's Dominique Hawkins: The kid we were 'blessed' to have

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RICHMOND, Ky. — Karen Feldhaus watched in the rearview mirror, listened and stayed out of it.

There was bickering in the cramped backseat as Feldhaus shuttled four teenagers — two of her daughters and two of her husband’s high school boys basketball players — in a Chevy Equinox.

One boy joked that Allie Feldhaus was ugly and that nobody would date her. She began to cry and the second boy, Dominique Hawkins, spoke up.

“Allie, are you crying? Allie, you're not ugly,” he said. Later, Allie laughed on senior night when she wrote to the boy, “Remember when you tried to convince me I wasn’t ugly?