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Tony Rodham, two weeks after hip-replacement operation, brought his 14-month-old daughter to see her aunt's presidential campaign rally in the family's sentimental home of Scranton. She toddled around the high school wearing a t-shirt that said "I Can Be President."

Fiona, a Virginia resident like her father, was baptised last year at Court Street United Methodist Church, "in the same baptismal gown my father wore" -- as did Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We have another due in July, and we'll be back here again."

Tony Rodham said Scranton is as much Clinton's home as any other. The family still has a cottage on Lake Winola, 20 miles north of Scranton. "She wasn't literally born here, but she has been here all her life," Rodham, 53, said. "These are the hardest-working, kindest, momst deserving people in the world," he said. "People in Scranton have the biggest hearts I have ever seen."

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