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They draw Pac-Man and boots, bear claws and mountains, and though Shane does well Esther is on an unbelievable hot streak, so much so that when she guesses “Elephants!” from the barest of sketches, Shane gives her that kind of amazed/angry look that says, “Get out of my head!”
The two of them soon erupt into the kind of laughter often shared by old friends. But, they are not old friends.
Shane Sweis is an 11-year-old boy being treated at Long Beach Memorial’s Jonathan Jaques Children’s Cancer Institute for acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow.