“The strongest in the broken places”: Joe and Jill Biden say thank you in the middle of the cancer diagnosis
Joe and Jill Biden said on Monday that they were grateful to “love and support” they had received since the former president’s office announced his cancer diagnosis on Sunday.
“Cancer touches us all,” said the couple in a post On Joe Biden’s social media account. “Like many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are the strongest in broken places. Thank you for raising us with love and support.”
The message included a photo of the couple, with their cat, Willow.
On Sunday, Biden’s office said that it was diagnosed on Friday with prostate cancer, saying that even if it was “a more aggressive form of the disease, cancer seems to be sensitive to hormones that allows effective management”.
“The president and his family examine the processing options with his doctors,” the statement said on Sunday.
The Biden cancer diagnosis comes after a small nodule was found in the prostate of the former president after “a physical routine exam” on Tuesday. The discovery of the nodule “required a more in-depth assessment,” said his spokesperson at the time.
President Joe Biden kisses his wife the first lady Jill Biden after having delivered the opening speech on the first day of the National Democratic Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 2024.
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The feeling of being stronger in “broken places” is derived from a well -used line in “A Farewell to Arms”, a novel by Ernest Hemingway, which says: “The world breaks everyone and then many are strong in broken places.” It is a quote that Biden has often applied in difficult and important moments, both in his life and for the general public.
Biden used the sentence in 2016, when he opened his speech to the National Democratic Convention. He then quoted the line in March 2021, when the country marked the first anniversary of the Pandemic Covid-19 declaration. And he repeated it in September 2021, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, using Hemingway’s words in his tribute to the victims.
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Averi Harper, ABC News, Brittany Shepherd, Eric M. Strauss and Leah Sarnoff contributed to this report.
