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NEW YORK, Aug 7, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- New York CBS News anchor Katie Couric feels envious when she sees a father holding his daughter's hand, having lost her husband to cancer, she told Parade.
In excerpts from next Sunday's Parade magazine, Couric said, "the feeling of loss is palpable," Entertainment Tonight reported.
Couric's husband Jay Monahan died in 1998, leaving her with two young girls, Carrie, 10, and Ellie, 15.
"Ultimately, I would love to be married or in a really solid, committed relationship," she said.
Couric has dated a couple of other men since then, but nothing worked out permanently. "Those things have to happen organically," she said.
She is very concerned about the effects of a new relationship on her daughters.
"(He) would have to be someone capable of loving my girls," Couric said. "Maybe not so much as their biological father, because that tie is so primal, but I'd have to think long and hard before I let anyone spend extended periods of time with them," she said.
"It's a big responsibility being the protector of children who have already experienced loss," she said.
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