Joe Biden When No One Is Watching

When my son was diagnosed with leukemia in 2016, Biden didn't have to call. But he did, three times, because he is everything he says he is. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       This Is Joe Biden When No One Is Watching   One Sunday morning a few weeks after Ryan D'Agostino interviewed Joe Biden for the cover of Popular Mechanics, before the issue had even gone to press, his son, almost 7, awoke with a headache. His eyes began to close. It got worse quickly, and within an hour he was airlifted to a children's hospital. There was a brain surgery he almost didn't survive. Then another. Doctors said words, and they tried to make sense of them. Late at night, lying awake on the pull-out hospital bed, D'Agostino sent a note to Hunter Biden. The next day, his phone rang: a weird number. He answered. It was the sitting vice president of the United States. "Ryan, it's Joe Biden. Dammit I'm so sorry. What happened?" 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