Two nervous daughters clung to her side.
"I should really be traveling to trade fairs now, visiting customers," Schmidt said, while her 4-year-old daughter clung to a leg.
His daughter pouted and clung to Val.
For a time daughter and father could do nothing but cling to each other and gasp out broken, joyous little phrases of love.
Her body was found on January 6, 2002, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, clinging to her body.
Death's daughters were clinging to her skirts today.
Witnesses said that the daughter, Margaret Neiss, clung to her mother's leg but was pushed into traffic as they crossed the busy four-lane highway.
She got stiffly to her feet and, with her daughter still clinging to her, went to the telephone and called the school.
"They put delinquent taxpayers in the paper," she said this morning as her 3-year-old daughter clung to her leg.
"Tomorrow, we might go if we have the transport," she said, as her 11-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter clung to her waist.