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Sam Daily is Bob’s father, and at the beginning of the series, he is a commercial airline pilot who owns his own air freight company. Samuel James Daily is in his early 50s and was formerly a policeman. He is widowed, having retired from the force around the time of his wife, Janet’s death. He has four children: Lauren, the oldest, is a lawyer who lives and practices law in Florida with her husband, Derek Webster; Barbara, who is just three years younger and looks so much like her mother, is...

Mary Elizabeth Flaugherty is the mother of twins Pat and Patty. She appears in many, but not all, of the stories. Mary Elizabeth is a widow and single mother in her mid-forties when the stories begin. Her husband died tragically when the twins were only two years old. She has never sought to remarry. Mary Elizabeth was born Mary Elizabeth Kelly, and I swear, I did not realize at the time I named this character, that the name I chose was the name of my actual paternal grandmother. The...

My first sketch of the twins. When I first created my characters over 50 years ago, I pretty much knew what I wanted them to look like. I had a picture in my “mind’s eye,” but I still wanted to be able to see them with my actual eyes. My first step to accomplish that was to sketch them myself. I am not by any means an artist, but I have enough talent to create something that is not altogether ugly, so I did my best to start by coming up with a sketch of Pat and Patty. I liked the thumbnail...