Twenty six years later, Cate is a highly successful editor-in-chief of a popular lifestyle magazine in New York City, which helps women with problems.

In his letter, he expresses his regret for never having looked her up and requests her to scatter his ashes in New Kerry, with his friends Cavanaugh and Donahue, two Irish singers, in presence.

On October 1, 2007, it was announced Laura Leighton would star in a Hallmark Channel movie, Daniel's Daughter.

[4] After its premiere, Daniel's Daughter ranked as the highest rated ad-supported cable movie of the week.

[5] The film boosted the channel to rank as the highest-rated cable network in Prime Time for the day.

[6] Variety wrote: 'Solid performances and scenic locations help bring a little heft to what's otherwise a pretty standard yarn about a woman whose idyllic life is shaken up by a long-deferred trip home to bury her father'.