Tragedy has struck the Kennedy family once more as Tatiana Schlossberg, 35-year-old granddaughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday she has less than a year to live after being diagnosed with blood cancer.
She disclosed the prognosis in a New Yorker essay titled “A Battle With My Blood,” poignantly published on the November 22 anniversary of her grandfather’s 1963 assassination in Dallas 62 years ago.
The mother of two wrote that she has myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation. The first paragraph gets right to her experience in what can only be described as powerful prose:
When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything. Images come in flashes—people and places and stray conversations—and refuse to
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