Whitney Cerak, left, and Laura Van Ryn, when both were students at Taylor University. The family of Cerak was incorrectly …
Whitney Cerak lives a pretty normal life nowadays. Which seems just fine with her.
Six years after being mistaken for dead, Cerak is now a wife and mother. In fact, she married her soldier boyfriend, Matt Wheeler, in the same church where her family had held her funeral.
When Matt Lauer of "Today" asked her toreflect for a piece about her life, Cerak said. "I don't know where to start."
Things have changed since that dramatic day in 2006. Cerak was among a group of Taylor University students in a van that collided with a truck in Indiana. Five people were killed. Cerak, heavily bandaged and unresponsive, was misidentified as classmate Laura Van Ryn, who had a similar appearance and died in the crash.
For five weeks, Van Ryn's parents sat by the hospital bed of the young lady they assumed was their daughter. Cerak's family held a funeral for Whitney that was attended by more than 1,000 people.
The truth came a terrible shock for the Van Ryns.
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