From a Wall Street Journal column by Lance Morrow headlined “The Tragedy of Hunter Biden and the Daughter He’s Never Met”:

It could be a plot from a Charles Dickens novel—or from the country of myth: one of Herodotus’ tales of dynasty and retribution.

If Herodotus were telling the story, he would begin by recounting how, long ago, Joe Biden lost a daughter, Naomi, when she was only a year old. It happened in the 1972 Delaware car crash that also killed his wife, Neilia, who was driving, and critically injured their little boys, Beau and Hunter. The accident became the defining trauma of the elder Mr. Biden’s emotional life. He suffered. He rose from the ashes.