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Samiria Guerrero watched her two-year-old son, Ka’mari Bruster, run from one stack of toys to the next in a colorfully-decorated hospital conference room, not thinking about the burns on his body but about the smile on his face. He s just having fun and I love it, Guerrero said. He doesn t care that he s burned.
The duo from Spartanburg, S.C., were one of several families invited to Shop With a Doc Thursday by the Burn Foundation of America, Burn and Reconstructive Centers of America, and Doctors Hospital. Every year around Christmas, young patients of the hospital s Joseph M. Still Burn Center are invited to a shopping spree where they can have fun, bring home toys, and even meet Santa Claus.