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<ARTICLE>                     9
<LEGEND>
     (This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
registrant's unaudited consolidated financial statements for the nine months
ended March 31, 1999 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
financial statements.)
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>                        First Federal Financial Corp of Kentucky
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