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Chiara Fiorillo

Dad who had kids with his long-lost daughter may suffer from 'genetic sexual attraction'

A dad and a daughter who were estranged for 30 years and began a relationship when they reconnected may have been affected by a phenomenon called genetic sexual attraction.

John Deaves did not spend much time with his daughter Jenny while she was growing up, but in 2000 she went to visit him and his third wife Dorothy in Port Pirie, South Australia.

Jenny, who was 31 and married with children at the time, had only seen her then 53-year-old father three times before her visit.

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