"I know that not everyone can be married to a doctor, but, if you can, it’s a very good idea. He is perfect, and I feel so cheated and so sad that I don't get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find. My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half. They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it. This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day. For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry. Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family's life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it."
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (5 May 1990 – 30 December 2025) was an American environmental journalist and author who worked as a science and climate reporter for The New York Times. Her book Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have was published in 2019. Schlossberg died at the age of 35 due to acute myeloid leukemia.
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