Joe Tumanako, father of missing woman Annabell Tumanako; and her son Andre Tumanako.
My heart goes out to Jo Tumanako.
As a father of daughters, I would be distraught if anything bad happened to one of them.
Yet Mr Tumanako has suffered the unbelievable tragedy of losing his little girl. She may have been a woman, but to any father, daughters remain your
little girls forever. Worse, still, for Mr Tumanako is that he does not know what happened to Annabelle.
I could not imagine a fate so cruel. It must be terrible to lose your baby who you saw develop from those first moments to an adoring (and adorable) little girl and then watched them blossom into a beautiful woman.
As the Greek playwright Euripides put it: "To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender." And that is the whole point, fathers and daughters have a connection.
