The scene-stealer at last night's US Democratic convention was not a politician or Hollywood A-lister, but a 13-year-old boy whose stammer has substantially improved through the help of the man at the centre of the gathering itself: Joe Biden.
Brayden Harrington said in a video that he had met Mr Biden while he campaigned in New Hampshire earlier this year.
"Without Joe Biden, I wouldn't be talking to you today," the young boy wearing braces and a wide smile explained.
"He told me that we were members of the same club. We stutter. It was really amazing to hear that someone like me became vice president," Brayden said, halting on some of the words.
As a child, Mr Biden, had a severe stammer and was cruelly nicknamed "Dash."
He occasionally tells the story on the campaign trail of his effort to overcome his stammer, about how he read from books by Irish poets and practiced his diction at night with a flashlight in front of a mirror.
Brayden said Mr Biden sat him down and told him about the poems that he read aloud and practiced, and showed the boy how he marks his speeches in a way that helps make them easier to recite.
"I'm just a regular kid and in the short amount of time, Joe Biden made me more confident about something that's bothered me my whole life," the boy said.
"Joe Biden cared. Imagine what he can do for all of us."
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A video about Mr Biden's life that ran before he accepted his party's nomination last night mentioned his stammer, and about how his mother drove him back to school when he came home saying he had been mimicked by a teacher.
"Did you say to my son Mr. B-B-Biden?" he says in the clip, quoting his mother.
"The nun said 'I was just trying to make a point.' My mother stood up (and said) 'If you ever talk to my son like that again I'll come back and rip that damn bonnet off your head, do you understand me?"
In an interview last year in The Atlantic, Mr Biden acknowledged he still gets caught on words as an adult.
He told a town hall gathering in February that when he meets someone with a stammer, he often gives them his private number.
"They can call me," he said.
