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As Elyce Wakerman within the scores of interviews she conducted, the loss of a daddy - through fatality, divorce, or abandonment - is the event that patterns a girl's life and all her future interactions. "In my fantasy," one girl commented, "he remains the perfect, all-giving man" - a hard role for any other man to fill. Based partially on the author's experience, partially on her in-depth interviews, and partially over a questionnaire she developed with psychologist Holly Barrett to which almost 600 women responded, Dad Loss supplies the clearest portrait yet of a very special band of women. As an organization, they express their insecurities ("Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever have the ability to love a guy totally...because that could indicate I didn't love my father any longer." - Leslie). Yet independently, many have become remarkable achievers, including Eleanor Roosevelt ("He dominated my life as long as he lived and was the love of my life for a long time after he passed on."), Helen Gurney Dark brown ("People running a business, my bosses, I turn to all of them as fathers."), Barbara Streisand, Gloria Steinem, Geraldine Ferraro and many more. A best retailer when it was first published 25 years back and now up to date and modified, Father Loss offers information and insight to fatherless daughters, to widows and divorcees with daughters, and to every daddy who needs to understand the vital role he takes on in his daughter's life - as the first man she ever loves.
