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Mar
A smile crosses Eli Tepas Barba’s face as he recalls his first few days back to school this month.
“It feels like I never got diagnosed with leukemia,” he says with a grin.
The 10-year-old smirks as he talks about his first haircut since chemotherapy caused his hair to fall out last year.
And what does he think about trips to the barber?
“I still don’t like it,” he says playfully.
But all indications of playfullness fade from his eyes as he recounts three straight weeks in a BC Children’s Hospital bed after being diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in March of 2017.
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