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Hunt,

I hope this message finds you and your family doing well. For the last
year, I have been volunteering a great deal of time to the American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention, as a board member for their Philadelphia
chapter. Working to fight suicide, the 10th leading cause of death in this
country, is very important to me for personal reasons. I had a near death
experience when I was 27 years old as a result of a highly ambivalent
suicide attempt. It's taken me awhile to feel comfortable speaking about
my experience with depression and suicidal thoughts in public, but I'm
grateful to be talking to groups regularly now in the Philadelphia area,
and I'm planning on sharing my story and the AFSP's Talk Saves Lives
program at Archmere next Fall.

The AFSP is at the center of the fight to reduce suicide, and I know that
your stepmother was kind enough to speak at an AFSP event last year in
February. Given the latest statistics recently released by the CDC the
fight to reduce suicide is as important as ever. Each year advocates from
all of our chapters visit Washington to lobby Congress. This year's
advocacy forum is June 12th - June 15th, and I will be participating for
the first time. I've gotten to know the executive leadership of the AFSP
over the last year, and I'm grateful to be working with such passionate and
dedicated people. We have an ambitious goal and a realistic plan of attack
to reduce the U.S. suicide rate by 20% within a decade.

It would mean the world to me to help the AFSP's CEO, Chief Medical
Officer, and VP of Public Policy, (Bob Gebbia, Dr. Christine Moutier, and
John Madigan) meet with your father in June during our advocacy forum in
Washington. I would be beyond grateful for any help you might be able to
provide in helping me make this meeting happen.

All the best,
Frank
215.678.3243


Francesco Bellafante
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Philadelphia Chapter Board Member
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Francesco Bellafante <incredulity@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hunt,
>
> The obvious horrible circumstances aside, I was grateful to have had the
> chance to spend the few moments that we spent together at Beau's wake; it
> meant a lot to me to see you and to personally express my condolences to
> you and your family. I also want to let you know how touched I was, blown
> away really, by your amazing tribute to your brother at the funeral. The
> entire ceremony was such a beautiful tribute and celebration of Beau and
> his life. I was so grateful to be able to see it, not to mention to know
> that people that may not have known Beau could see and hear you and
> everyone else that spoke, so that they could understand what kind of son,
> father, brother, friend and public servant... what kind of person your
> brother was. I also wanted to take a moment to share something else with
> you. Beau's wake was the first time that I ever spoke with your father,
> and as I was getting close to the front of the receiving line, I debated
> taking a couple extra moments to thank him for his decades of service to
> the people of Delaware and this country, but I decided against it in the
> interest of time. I wanted to thank him for living such an inspiring life
> and for dedicating himself to public service and for being a living example
> of the difference that one person can help make, for others. For what it's
> worth, I also want to share this thought... in spite of her own record of
> decades of public service, Hillary Clinton simply does not inspire me the
> way that your father does, and this doesn't have anything to do with the
> fact that I went to school with you and Beau, but rather, it has to do with
> how I see your father as a person, as a leader and as a public servant.
> Inspiration has a lot to do with why and how your father and the president
> got elected obviously, and I don't think there's any less need for
> inspiration now. I can only begin to imagine the calculus that your father
> and your family must be going through weighing what's next, but please know
> that you/your father have a volunteer in me, in Philadelphia, that will
> throw himself into his campaign for president, should he decide to run. I
> imagine this may have been the longest two months of your life Hunt, and I
> continue to pray for you and your whole family.
>
> Warmest regards,
> Frank
>
>
> Francesco Bellafante
> Behavioral Healthcare Advocate & AFSP Speakers Bureau Volunteer
> frank talk about suicide
> <https://about.me/francescobellafante?promo=email_sig>
> <https://about.me/francescobellafante?promo=email_sig>iameinstein.com
>
> Francesco Bellafante
> Behavioral Healthcare Advocate & AFSP Speakers Bureau Volunteer
> frank talk about suicide
> <https://about.me/francescobellafante?promo=email_sig>
> <https://about.me/francescobellafante?promo=email_sig>iameinstein.com
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Hunter Biden <hbiden@rosemontseneca.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Frank. Means so much to me. Best, Hunter
>>
>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Francesco Bellafante <
>> incredulity@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I can't even imagine losing my older brother... I was so so sorry to
>>> hear the tragic news late last night Hunt.
>>> You and your whole family remain in my thoughts and prayers.
>>>
>>> Francesco Bellafante
>>> Behavioral Healthcare Advocate & AFSP Speakers Bureau Volunteer
>>> frank talk about suicide
>>> <https://about.me/francescobellafante?promo=email_sig>
>>> <https://about.me/francescobellafante?promo=email_sig>iameinstein.com
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Francesco Bellafante <
>>> incredulity@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thinking of and praying for you, Beau, and the whole family.
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Hunter Biden <hbiden@rosemontseneca.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:37 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: best to you
>>>> To: Francesco Bellafante <incredulity@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Frank- means a lot to me.
>>>> RHB
>>>> 202.333.1880
>>>>
>>>> > On Oct 17, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Francesco Bellafante <
>>>> incredulity@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hunt,
>>>> > Heard the news, thinking of you.
>>>> > Wishing you all the best,
>>>> > Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> 1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW
>> Suite 705
>> Washington, DC 20007
>> (202) 333-1880
>>
>