It's hard to imagine what Teresa Earnhardt has been through the past 15 years.
Unless you're close to Dale Earnhardt's widow or have gone through a traumatic event yourself, you can't possibly understand what she's had to deal with, what kind of trials she's faced since her husband was killed on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.
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People deal with tragedy in different ways, and it impacts victims and their families differently. For most, there are myriad of emotions — shock, anger, fear, anxiety, a deep sense of sadness and loss, followed eventually by a depressing numbness that might subside over the years but never really goes away.