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"He plays a doctor with a flair for alternative medicine on Private Practice, but in real life, Tim Daly may have discovered the fountain of youth. The actor, who looks far younger than his 52 years, has been married for half his life \u2014 26 years \u2014 to actress Amy Van Nostrand; they are the parents of a son, 24-year-old Sam, and a daughter, 19-year-old Emelyn. &amp;quot;What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age,&amp;quot; Daly says with a laugh. &amp;quot;I had my kids while I was in utero.&amp;quot; Now Daly&amp;#039;s son is following in his footsteps; Sam recently appeared on Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy (as the optimistic young father of a baby born with a heart defect), and his dad is bursting with pride. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s my boy. He&amp;#039;s a sweetheart,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;And my daughter is at Columbia University now. Miss Smarty-Pants. She&amp;#039;s a genius.&amp;quot;  But Daly has reason to be proud beyond his great kids: The actor serves as a spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day, a fund-raiser held on October 3, when people across America are asked to wear their jeans and donate $5 to breast-cancer research through the site denimday.com.  It&amp;#039;s not often that you see a male celebrity as a spokesperson for breast cancer. Why did you get involved? A dear friend fought this disease, and her husband was so profoundly affected by it \u2014 it made me realize that breast cancer is important to men, too, because these are our wives, our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters who are fighting. You&amp;#039;re facing an empty nest now. How are you handling it? I am the biggest girl about it, honestly. I just can&amp;#039;t stand the fact that they&amp;#039;re going out on their own \u2014 I love having my kids around, and I&amp;#039;m angry at them for going out and becoming independent. I want to tuck them in and drive them to school in the morning, but they just won&amp;#039;t let me do that anymore. I actually went to a therapist, who told me that usually, it&amp;#039;s women who get like this. Is your wife equally sad? No, actually \u2014 she&amp;#039;s handled it much better. But she&amp;#039;s just generally stronger than I am about everything, which is nice, because it means that now I get to be the baby. Are you particularly helpful or handy around your empty house? Well, I have a farm in Vermont that&amp;#039;s my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors \u2014 just so you don&amp;#039;t get the wrong idea that I&amp;#039;m too girlie! And I went on a kick recently where I was building lots of tables. Which taught me a lesson: Apparently, you can have too many tables. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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