On Saturday, the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the New Yorker published a viral essay by his 35-year-old granddaughter, environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, who revealed that she is dying from a rare and aggressive blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia.

Many online praised Schlossberg for her “courageous” and “heartbreaking” essay about living with a terminal diagnosis and leaving behind a husband, two small children and a loving family, including her mother, Caroline Kennedy, who she said must live “with another tragedy in her life.” One famous cousin, Maria Shriver, praised Schlossberg on X as “a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend,” whose “extraordinary piece of writing” painstakingly details what she has been going through

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