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Tatiana Schlossberg — the center youngster of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and the granddaughter of former President John F. Kenney — died on Tuesday, December 30.
She was 35 years outdated.
The tragic information got here simply after a month since Schlossberg advised the world she had been recognized with most cancers.
The passing was shared by the social media accounts for the JFK Library Basis… on behalf of Tatiana’s prolonged household.
“Our stunning Tatiana handed away this morning. She is going to at all times be in our hearts,” learn the publish, which was signed by George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.
In November, Schlossberg introduced that she had been recognized with acute myeloid leukemia through an essay printed by The New Yorker.
“My first thought was that my children, whose faces stay completely on the within of my eyelids, wouldn’t bear in mind me,” she wrote on the time.
Schlossberg defined on this piece that medical doctors discovered the illness whereas she was within the hospital after giving start to her second child, a daughter. She and husband George Moran, who bought married in 2017, additionally share a son.
I didn’t — couldn’t — consider that they had been speaking about me,” Schlossberg wrote of her analysis, which might require chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant.
“I had swum a mile within the pool the day earlier than, 9 months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t really feel sick. I used to be really one of many healthiest individuals I knew.”
Schlossberg’s well-known household has endured quite a few private tragedies.
Her grandfather, President Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963; and her uncle, John F Kennedy Jr, died in a airplane crash in 1999.
“For my complete life, I’ve tried to be good, to be a very good pupil and a very good sister and a very good daughter, and to guard my mom and by no means make her upset or indignant,” Tatiana wrote final month.
“Now I’ve added a brand new tragedy to her life, to our household’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to cease it.”
Schlossberg additionally didn’t shy from addressing the person who she deemed an “embarrassment” to the Kennedy household: her mom’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was chosen to function President Donald Trump’s well being and human companies secretary whereas she was combating for her life throughout a number of therapies, transfusions and hospital stays.
“I attempt to stay and be with them now,” Schlossberg wrote of her youngsters a number of weeks in the past. “However being within the current is tougher than it sounds, so I let the reminiscences come and go. So a lot of them are from my childhood that I really feel as if I’m watching myself and my children develop up on the similar time.
“Typically I trick myself into considering I’ll bear in mind this endlessly, I’ll bear in mind this once I’m useless. Clearly, I received’t.
“However since I don’t know what loss of life is like and there’s nobody to inform me what comes after it, I’ll hold pretending. I’ll hold making an attempt to recollect.”
