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His mother, Nancy, grew up with four sisters, and his father, Dewey, grew up with three younger sisters.
The trend is even extending to the next generation. Seven months ago, his sister Lisa Kuenzi gave birth to quadruplets — three girls and one boy. The boy, Charlie, is Urbauer's only newhew among seven nieces.
Even though he has a better understanding of women than most men, women still baffle him sometimes, Urbauer said. And though he enjoys being single, he said that he feels a need to be in a relationship.
"I'm a sucker for girls," he said. "I've always had them around. I would love to have friends who are just girls who I could hang out with, but for some reason I can't seem to find that."
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In the years since he started dating at 17, Urbauer said he had consistently had a girlfriend for all but about six months. He is
Listen to Urbane talk about how the women in his family have affected his life.
single now after a breakup last October.
However, Urbauer said that he would keep trying. Because he was an athlete in high school, he thinks of relationships in similar terms.
"Approaching girls is like baseball hitting," he said. "Great hitters hit 30 percent. So if you go up to ten girls and make a connection with three out of the ten, that's amazing."
Urbauer said that family was an important part of his life and that he tried to help them any way that he could.
For example, he volunteered to take one niece to and from preschool every day for his sister Amy. His mother said he even remembered her on Valentine's
"He includes us in his life, still," Nancy said. "I think that's wonderful, that he hasn't forgotten where he comes from."
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Though the relationship between Nathan and his sisters is now positive, his mother said that there were times of sibling rivalry, especially with Sara Urmbauer, the next oldest at 23.
Nancy said that the arguments were sometimes heated.
"They fought like cats and dogs at certain times," she said. "I was afraid to leave them together in the same room."
But the entire family is very close now, Nathan said. He said he was glad to grow up in a home filled with women.
"If I didn't have four older sisters, I would have been completely different," he said. "I know that right now, and I'm glad i did."
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Stovall also said she didn't know whether she would support Chancellor Robert Hemenway's plan to make the University one of the top 25 public universities in the country.
"I don't know how much money it will require," she said.
Stovall said she backed an increase in cigarette taxes that would bring the state more than $111 million per year. The increase would make each pack 65 cents more expensive.
Stovall was reelected as Attorney General in 1998 with more than 76 percent of the vote. She said she considered leaving public life after serving two terms as attorney general. The Sept. 11
attacks made her rethink her decision.
"Maybe it's not time to leave government yet," she said.
Stovall will likely face fellow Republicans Tim Shallenburger and Bob Knight and Democrat Kathleen Sebelius in the race for the governor's seat. Shallenburger is the state treasurer and Knight is the mayor of Wichita. Recent polls show Stovall easily defeating her likely adversaries.
Sebelius is the state's incumbent insurance commissioner, Knight is the mayor of Wichita and Shallenburger is the state treasurer.
Stovall called herself a "modern Republican" and said she was the only Republican candidate who had a chance to win a race against Sebelius.
"Another Republican would lose," she said.
The last time Kansas elected a Democratic governor was 1990 when the late governor Joan Finney was elected.
Stovall also used the meeting to justify her decision to still pursue the Microsoft antitrust case. She is one of two Republicans and nine attorney generals still pursuing the lawsuit nationwide.
Recent campaign finance reports show that Stovall received between $14,000 and $20,000 in contributions from companies and individuals fighting software giant Microsoft, but she said she was doing it because it was the right thing to do.
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