The last time the father and daughter talked was late last month, and their conversations were typically short and confined to niceties.

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Her father, therefore, is in a position to overrule his daughter at any time.

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They are tracing the same patterns, walking through the same roles, struggling to work out the same sets of relations: husband and wife, father and mother, son and daughter who will become, in their time, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers.

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McCaw, still reed-thin at 50, is remarried and a father for the first time, with a newborn son and an 18-month-old daughter.

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McCaw, still reed-thin at 50 years old, is remarried and a father for the first time, with a newborn son and an 18-month-old daughter.

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Allen became a father for the first time in May when partner Reanne Evans, the ladies world champion, gave birth to daughter Lauren.

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