Adelaide Cervantes, 3, the daughter of Miguel and Kelly Cervantes, died Saturday morning, her mother announced on Twitter Sunday night.
Adelaide has been suffering from a neurodegenerative disorder and had been under hospice care for the last several days.
Miguel Cervantes has played the title role in the Chicago production of “Hamilton” for its entire run and still is slated to do so through January, although he is expected to take a short break from the role. Both partners have been public with their struggles over their young daughter’s health, with Kelly Cervantes maintaining a blog and both parents agitating for better care for childhood epilepsy patients.
“The machines are off. The bed is empty. The quiet is deafening,” Kelly Cervantes wrote Saturday. “She went peacefully in my arms, surrounded by love.”
In a tweet Monday morning, “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda asked his followers to hold the bereaved couple “in your hearts today.”
-------------------------------- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
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