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You know what what was mostly
small talk when we first met.

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When I would collect this
ticket and time went on, I

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learn more and more about him
as our friendship group. I

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think he's most comfortable
around everyday working class

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people just always makes you
feel like you belong.

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For more than 30 years, Joe
Biden took the train to work as

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a single dad. He promised to be
home to kiss the boys every

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night and then make them
breakfast in the morning.

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When you got on the train,
everyone's seem equal to him,

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he had time for everybody. Joe
was a regular. He bought rounds

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of coffee for fellow passengers
and crew, and he got to know

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the people he traveled with
these guys who broke the next.

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They're always rocking keeping
their balance collecting

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tickets help people with their
bags and the heaviest hell and

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they're doing this for hours
and it became really good

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friends. It was very interested
in my life. my children. It's

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time went on my grandchildren.
People don't do that today.

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People don't even take time out
to say hello and nod their head

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to the average working person.
They looked at us like we are

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important people, he would
treat the conductor the same as

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he would the president of the
United States. That is what dad

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taught us that everybody
deserves to be treated with

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dignity and respect. After Joe
became vice president, he cut

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down on his commute, but he
kept in touch. When Greg Weaver

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had a heart attack, he got a
phone call. I was in a

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barbershop in New York City and
the phone rings and sure

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enough. it was Vice President
Biden and asking me how I'm

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doing. I wanted to know the
whole story. It's kinda funny

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that you're talking to the vice
president of the United States.

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But if I would have told the
people in the Barber shop, I

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don't think they would have
believed me. I'm not saying it

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like it was me and I was
anything special. Everybody was

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special to him. We have heroes
all over this country and a lot

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of the essential workers out
there that we don't even see

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that are behind the scenes.
they're keeping this country

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going. he understands that. The
average guy is important to

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him. Average guy is important
to him.