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Show jriYrniTn Hi3top May 25, 2000 coDn pares 7TP by Steven R. Ford Hilltop Times Tnsn: - X staff 1 l i ' Z , r M-- l 4 ' r i $ M y ! - , Malone is now the mother of four young children, three girls and one boy, rang-in- g ' ; v from eight to nearly two and, even though her husband will be retiring soon, she says her life focused on her children and following in her own mothers footsteps. My main goal is really to be there for my children, like my mom was there for me, Malone said. She never missed ix Am her father was stationed at Randolph AFB, Texas. She said she vividly remem- Kay Malone bers her high schools basketball victories over nearby Cole High School J a&lL mkdt Ui) have dances every weekend, and I was always looking forward to the dances. (My friends and I) just loved the Rec Center because they had all the xm activi- F.H.A. 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Hes not on the road too much, but hes on the road enough that the kids miss him. I try to balance it for them, and thats what my mom tried to do, make sure we were happy and she was there for us. She noted that player trades and free Dreum! AJl-A.meric- un HK Bv A' the spouse returns. I think the similarities are that the husbands or wives are away a lot, and Free Fre q ucilific cition Freapproval 4 QYORiCi HeaargandArCandtairc the BS3 road trips, when the military spouse is away. Spouses develop family routines and particular ways of doing things, she said, that become disrupted later when jJteodlEBQ GP GBrtTHmaa w j! 5 .8 ftif A dren. Whatever my mom did, I think I can do for my children. Malone saw a number of parallels between being a military spouse and being a NBA spouse. For one thing, she understood what it is like, both from her military background and her husbands ,A i mm SpeciaTizing I You Cun Live iksai V J never missed any modeling things did. She was always there, and thats what I want to do for my chila game, ties. They kept us busy, and it was nice living on base and having all that. As the daughter of an enlistee, Malone said she had always found Air Force pilots attractive. In fact, she had grown up wanting to marry a pilot, but instead, she had to settle for the greatest power i i Sales Installation e .wit h cope with his life because it was so different. My father never stressed athletics. He stressed academics, so it was different. But they always say that people who are different seem to match, and we did, so we became best friends and . got married. e, because they had a center by the name of Shaquille ONeal. One of the things Malone remembers most about her Air Force life was the Rec Center. She and her friends would go there for dances and to hang out after school. It was just two blocks down the street, so my parents knew where we were all the time, Malone said. They would I of forward in NBA history. My mind really was always set on marrying a fighter pilot. That would have been a thrill, Malone said. Then I married Karl. I didnt know if I could $ e statuesque beauty and former Miss Idaho attended Randolph High School while A . f, u Before graduating with a sociology degree from Boise State University, the V .! sN'. one, shared her experiences Monday A i 1 As a former Air Force dependent, Kay Malone, wife of NBA superstar, Karl Mal- with an assembled crowd at the Officers Club to help kick off Military Spouse Appreciation Day. Even as a NBA spouse, Malone was able to relate to the Air Force spouses-becausher father was an Air Force enlis-teand he met her mother, a native of the Philippines, while stationed at Clark Air Base. I lI 1 ora i S SSairy a .wittahgcsfireplaces.com iColl the Thrift Shop ot A. no ? ' 1 E t, C 825-10- for more information. 26 i.intwei ifnia i. i a i "I T! W . 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