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He\'s home and with his family,&quot; Daniel Ferguson, Kilpatrick\'s former brother-in-law and longtime family friend <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/01/20/kwame-kilpatrick-out-prison-trump-commutation/4239700001/">told the Free Press</a>. 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