But the body language of both Paul McCartney and Heather Mills still showed a fair amount of awkwardness, hardly surprising after 18 months of bitter divorce wrangling. The highly-estranged couple were meeting purely so that Heather could hand over their three-year-old daughter Beatrice to her father as part of their shared custody agreement.
While the adults kept a reserved distance from each other - in a meeting that lasted less than 90 seconds - the little girl had no inhibitions about showing her emotions.
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As Bea spotted her father she squealed with delight: "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." Smiling Sir Paul, 64, picked up his daughter and gave her a loving cuddle.
But he tensed as she reached out to put an arm around her mother's neck, almost as if she was trying to pull her parents together again.
The exchange happened in the fashionable Hamptons enclave in New York, where Sir Paul has a £10million waterside estate.
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