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Joe Biden intimate, between the love of wife and children and that “black hole that does not disappear”

Joe Biden and the new president of the United States, the largest economic-military power on planet Earth, but it is also a man who knows pain. The New York Times, a few months ago, revealed that there is even a binder of “material on pain”, his. Notes, reflections and memories of people dear to him, which are no longer there.

When he was first elected American Senator of Delaware in 1972, his young wife Neilia and his beloved daughter Naomi (just over a year old) were killed in a car accident. The other two children, Beau e Hunter, who were 3 and 2 years old at the time, were in the back seat. They survived, but were hospitalized for days. “There’s a black hole that doesn’t disappear,” Joe said, “but over time you have to learn how to make room for it“. And so he did, raising his head and – thanks to the support of Beau e Hunter – finding love again.

In March 1975, at the age of 32, thanks to a blind date organized by his brother Frank, he met Jill Biden, nine years younger than him, behind him a first marriage with a football player. She neither understood the suffering, she helped him to to recover, argued him. The two got married to New York in 1977, and in 1981 they became parents of their only daughter Ashley. “How to bring one together broken family? In the same way that unite a nation»He declared a few months ago Jill. «With love and understanding and with little ones gestures of kindness. With courage. With unshakable faith“. Biden, born into a modest family of Irish descent and already vice president with the administration Obama, he always had Jill by his side. Fundamental column for Joe, who today can also count on the support of you are grandchildren. A family that has managed to reunite, going through another tearing pain.

Nel May 2015, forty-three years after the first tragedy, Joe had to face the death at 46 of the eldest son Beau – married and father, rising star of the Democratic Party – after a grueling battle against a brain tumor.

In 2017, Biden wrote a book: Dad make me a promise. A year of hope, suffering and determination. Story of a father and a son lost too soon, a powerful man and his family tragedies. “Dad, make me a promise, give me your word that you’ll be fine no matter what», Beau told Joe in November 2014, when the family gathered as always on Nantucket, the island in Massachusetts off Cape Cod, to celebrate the last Thanksgiving with the firstborn still alive. Beau died, but Joe kept his promise. Finding, again, the strength to start again. “What I’ve been through shouldn’t stop me from fight», He confessed years ago during an interview with Stephen Colbert. “If I didn’t get up, I’d disappoint Beau, my parents, my family».

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