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Same? Different? What does it matter? We'll only consider them together.

The metacommunication of McCainbloggette.com — chubby blond, faux-hot ivy blogs about dad's campaign, the media and shoes — is, according to the AP, that a 71-year-old dad is not necessarily crotchety (12th graf), according to his 23-year-old daughter.

Will it get him votes? Her a date? Or, is it just a place to look for what she will grow into or what he once was?

Fathers and children rarely are considered as individuals. Their stories are told together whether it is how much of former steroid using Met Lenny Dykstra can be seen in son Cutter D. or how the Hershey Bears have a left wing, teen Chris Bourque, with skills remarkably reminiscent of a hall of Famer Ray, dad Ray.

And, ocassionally, it gets so confusing that you can't tell the father and child apart, as in the case of Nick and Bennet Berry, Okie landscape artists whose styles are merging to where they might soon be able to substitute for each other in shows.

But, always, the stories are not complete unless told together.

** Ever the dad-dude/dudette fusion. **