 Cal was the daughter of Meg Dale.She had first come to the fictional community of Rosehill, New York, after intercepting a letter from her aunt Vanessa Dale, asking Meg to return to Rosehill to see her mother (and Cal's grandmother) Sarah Dale, who was in the hospital near death.Sadly, she had been mercilessly neglected by her mother, just like her half-brother Ben "Beanie" Harper had been when he was younger.