Amidst this, Biden’s despair deepened. When he was writing his memoirs in 2017, he described the experience as having “a tiny dark hole in the middle of my chest [that] threatened to suck my entire being down into it.”
He began keeping a calendar in which he recorded his daily mood scores from 1 to 10 in the hopes that it would help him feel better.
If it was a 10, it would have been the finest day of his life, and if it was a 1, it would have been the worst. For half a year, he marked each day on the calendar with a one.
Joe, who was 32 years old at the time, had a string of bad luck culminate in a blind meeting with 23-year-old Jill Jacobs three years after the deaths of Neilia and Naomi.
‘No man deserves one great love, much alone two.’ (Biden, later to remark) Joe is married to Jill in 1977. Ashley was born to them four years later; she would be their only child.
Unfortunately, Joe’s son Beau passed away from brain cancer at the age of 46 in 2015. This leads “many voters to view Joe Biden primarily through the prism of his history of loss,” according to Ben Schreckinger, Biden’s biographer, who spoke to DailyMail.com.
