them, you know, was my age. and then the other was dan hiers. well, it all started. we were playing, i think it was like a game of tag going on between me and two other kids. dan started running around, playing tag with us. he was like a big kid. >> dan became friends with the child's mother and offered to be some sort of role model, because the girl's biological father was not in her life at the time. >> he offered to start taking me to karate classes, actually. anything that was really going on around town, we would be a part of that, going to the fair, beak rides, going fishing. showed me how to shoot a gun. >> mila did question dan's affection to this young girl and