Joyful. Creative. Advocate. Kid. Born June 7, 2014, in Toronto; died March 9, 2022, in Toronto, from haemorrhaging after an arteriovenous malformation ruptured in her jaw; aged 7
“You’ve only got one life to live, so you gotta live it good,” urged Aliyah Davida Elena Rotman to her schoolmates at Jackman Avenue Junior Public School in Toronto during morning announcements last fall. Less than six months later, Aliyah died suddenly of a rare vascular condition.
People were always drawn to Aliyah, and she was drawn to them. Unlike most kids her age, Aliyah had adult friends. At age four, and at the time living in Berlin, she and her dance teacher asked her parents if they could make noodles and ice cream dates after dance class; alone, Aliyah insisted. She could carry a conversation with anecdotes from her own life, curiosity, humour, sincerity and insightful observations.
In Grade 1, she noticed that the March Madness ladder being run by her school had only the men’s basketball teams. “Why don’t we also have the women’s teams?” she asked teachers and eventually the school principal. Aliyah’s parents found out about this after it was announced that the women’s bracket would be included because of Aliyah’s advocacy.
Aliyah was a kid, too. She smiled brightly, laughed generously and loved sparkly unicorn clothes. There wasn’t a body of water she wouldn’t jump into, including her first polar bear swim on New Year’s Day 2022. Cycling adventures, often riding more than 30 kilometres in a day, were a favourite, and she biked to and from school almost every day, including navigating Toronto’s snow covered streets in the winter. Through skiing, she experienced a kind of freedom, too.
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