(Joe himself is famously sober, due to an admitted family propensity for addiction.)

A tractor-trailer broadsided them and killed my wife and killed my daughter."

“I was almost three years old,” he said.

Neilia, Joe, and Biden kids

She wrote about her “easy, natural beauty” and her warm smile.

She also wrote about how unfair the situation was.

“Joe Biden had had everything, and in a horrible second, it was gone.”

Joe Biden

Things are too good," according toThe Independent.

Sadly, she was right.

As Neilia and her 13-month-old daughter lay dying, fliers from her husband’s recent campaign littered the streets.

Joe Biden

In that terrible moment, as Biden later described it, “My whole world was altered forever.”

I made it through, with a lot of support, and reconstructed my life and my family."

“Keep thinking what your husband or wife would want you to do,” he said.

Joe Biden

Joe Biden at son Beau’s funeral