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'We agreed on almost everything,' he wrote, save for Neilia's hope that her husband set his sights on the U.S.

Neilia served a crucial role in Joe's 1972 Senate campaignĪs their shared journey took them to Syracuse and then to Wilmington, the couple mapped out the goals that included Joe becoming a trial lawyer and then running for public office.

And as their relationship progressed, her well-to-do parents overcame any misgivings about his politics (he's a Democrat, they were Republican) and religious faith (he's Catholic, they were Presbyterian).Īs such, the August 1966 wedding between Joe and Neilia appeared to be just an early milestone in their storybook romance, no one knowing their union would end in tragedy less than six-and-a-half years later. Joe found Neilia to be warm, bright and refreshingly down to earth, unbothered by his modest upbringing in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware.

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'She was lit by the unforgiving journey of a full afternoon sun, and I couldn't see a single flaw.' 'When she turned toward me, I could see she had a beautiful smile and gorgeous green eyes,' he wrote in his memoir Promises to Keep. The University of Delaware junior had taken a spring break trip to the Bahamas and sneaked into an exclusive beach resort, where he came upon Syracuse University senior Neilia Hunter sunbathing by a pool. It was love at first sight for Joe Biden.

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