Subject: Fwd: * PERSONAL * - 1980 - Augusta, Maine - Your profound gesture
From: "Katie Dodge" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:09:45 -0400

I recently wrote this (below) after your brother died.  I hope you don't
mind.  But also I have been wanting to express how your brother's death has
affected me on so many levels.  Foremost is the feeling of a heavy heart
for how it has impacted you and yet I am so happy that you had enough time
with your brother to feel such a deep love for each other. Your quote of
"42 years ago God gave us a gift of sparing my brother" stayed with me.  I
was too young to have that with my sister. She was 17 and I was 10.
Anyway, it has been 35 years for me and I still am moved to smiles and
tears on a regular basis.  I am still healing or I would not be writing
these two e-mails.

Thank you for everything personally and professionally over the past almost
3 years.  I have learned so much being here about family and Washington.

Love,
Katie

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From: Katie Dodge <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:38 AM
Subject: * PERSONAL * - 1980 - Augusta, Maine - Your profound gesture
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Katie Dodge <[email-masked]>

Hello Sen. Kennedy,

I have waited decades to have the ability and courage to contact you.  In
November, I prepared a letter for you from Hunter Biden congratulating you
on your election (I am his Executive Assistant - Congratulations!).  It
was as close to meeting you as I had come.  I did not want to interfere
with Hunter's sentiments so I have been waiting to reach out to you
separately.  However, when Hunter's brother, Beau, so tragically passed
away, I thought its time to seize the opportunity.  Life is too short.

Way back in 1980, my beautiful oldest sister, Theresa Brannigan, passed
away from cancer.  You and she were about the same age at the time.  I
believe either Severin Beliveau or the dear Mr. Dan Hickey arranged for you
to come to our house in Augusta, Maine, and sit with her in our living room
while she was sick and talk to her about your shared illness and
experience.  The fact that you would want to do that, as a teenager, a
young man, with so many other places to be and many other people to be
with, was amazing.

I was 10 years old then and that meeting has had an impact on me ever
since.  To have taken the time to visit with my sister meant so much to all
of us, especially my parents who had been Kennedy fans for years and who
wanted to offer their daughter whatever comfort and hope that they could
and your visit was just that.  I have been hoping that some day I would be
able to thank you in person.

I am sorry that you suffered cancer and I empathize with how scary that
must have been for you at such a young age.  I am so happy that you have
done so well and that you are healthy.  Beau Biden's illness and death has
brought back so many familiar emotions, I felt I just had to reach out to
you and thank you once and for all.

Thank you very much.

Warm Regards,
Katie (Brannigan) Dodge

-- 
*Katie Dodge*
Executive Assistant/ Office Manager
*Rosemont Seneca Partners*
*1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW,  #705*
*Washington, DC  20007*
*202-333-1880*

-- 
*Katie Dodge*
Executive Assistant/ Office Manager
*Rosemont Seneca Partners*
*1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW,  #705*
*Washington, DC  20007*
*202-333-1880