Subject: Maisy's birthday
From: "Kathleen Biden" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:51:37 -0400

Hunter,

I'm sorry you didn't realize you were invited to POTUS bday - I honestly assumed you knew but wouldn't want to go.

I am really trying to navigate all of this in a kind and thoughtful way.  This is as sad and painful for me as I think it is for you.  

Can we please be kind to each other when we talk?  Our marriage may be over but we'll always be parents together.

The girls will be at the lake from tomorrow until August 20.  If you would like to be there at anytime, let me know and we can make it happen.  This is actually the least amount of time we've ever stayed at the lake - lots of travel with your dad and camps.  It will be just two weeks total for Naomi and Finn and just three for me and Maisy.    I hope you realize that.  We haven't really made any plans for Maisy's bday except I told her Mia could visit.  Maybe you and I could talk about what we'd like to get her.  She talked about a road bike like my Tri bike.  I'd like to give her a gift from both of us.

Anytime you'd like to spend with girls, let me know.  Hopefully formalizing the separation will give all of us some structure.

I've really only tried to help you, the girls and our family.  Nothing I'm doing is meant to hurt you or your relationship with them.  

I'm finished trying to help with your sobriety. All I am doing now is trying to make sure the girls feel supported and safe.  

Try considering that I am doing this because I literally can't take it anymore.  If I think too hard on what is happening, I wouldn't be able to get out of bed.  I have never loved anyone the way I loved you.  I thought I would be married to you for the rest of my life.  My life has been broken too.

I'm not mad, I'm not looking for any explanations, I don't need assurance of your sobriety.  I just want to feel better, stop having nightmares, stop having to see your charges, stop thinking about you all day.  In order to do that, I need to separate. 

I think about how hard this has been for you. Could you consider it is hard for me too?

I hope we can be kind to each other.

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