BY AMANDA MOSES
Sunrise: 2/12/1988
Sunset: 7/05/2022
There are some people who have such a profound effect on those around them it’s almost earth shattering. The fire inside them burns so brightly, others can’t help but be drawn toward them. The best way to describe that type of person is simply as a shooting star—so small but with such a beautiful, significant impact that those within the gravitational pull cannot turn away. This best describes Natasha O’Sullivan, a young woman who moved so quickly, with a glow akin to a comet powering through the sky, her friends and family were only graced with her presence for a brief time before she lit up their lives and moved on.
Natasha O’Sullivan and her twin sister Erica O’Sullivan burst into this world at Mount Sinai hospital on February 12, 1988. Together they lived in the Bronx until the age of five, when they moved to Elmhurst, Queens attending Ascension Elementary School. While Erica attended Cathedral High School, Natasha studied at the Mary Louis Academy (TMLA) in Jamaica, Queens.
The O’Sullivan twins were identical not just in appearance, but in good nature as well. Natasha exuded an angelic aura, beaming with a childlike personality, flittering through the world like a pixie. She ignited every room she walked into with her melodic laugh, warm smile, quick wit, and killer dance moves. Her selfless love for nurturing children became her profession as she reached adulthood, holding a position as head pre-school teacher in Oxbridge Preschool.
Natasha O’Sullivan passed away on July 5, 2022. She leaves behind her sisters Erica, Rachel, and Katie, brothers Daryl and Bruce, niece Arya, father Nessan, her boyfriend Stalin, and so many other relatives, loved ones and friends who mourn her passing. She is also predeceased by her mother, Annie. Her memory will never be forgotten, but if you look up to the sky you might just catch a glimpse of a shooting star and know that is her smiling down on us.
Photo by Dean Moses
