. >> they were both diagnosed one day apart from each other with acute limbo blass particular leukemia of the most common cancers in kids. they have been through spinal taps, bone marrow transplants, every process of their recuperation. >> it looks like they lost their hair together. >> yes. >> the thing is, i mean, this is so scary, it's such a scary disease for anybody. imagine how scary it is for a little kid. it must be really nice to have somebody else around the same age to go through this, to battle this thing together. >> even their moms have become friends. >> she is like a sister to me. >> we've definitely developed a lasting bond with them. forever. i mean, we feel like we'll be friends for the rest of our lives. >> i told you! >> i can take it. >> they're no longer living at the hospital. add son will have to continue going for chemotherapy for one more year. >> wow. >> he did say he misses her when she is not there when he's getting his chemo. one of my favorite parts of this story is at the very end. >> like, one of my old sayings, if it's one of your worst feared place,

with indirect lighting and if you go west from the mcgraw rotunda the public catalog room, the bill blass catalog room and flooded with light because of the light ports on either side and that leads us to one of the magnificent spaces of the era and any era, the reading room, a beautiful space where i spent many a time when i was a kid going into high school. two blocks long, two city looks long and could have been over bearing and could have looked like a bowling alley and could have looked like a lot of things but instead it is a beautiful space, one of the great interior spaces of the city again, no i.d. needed. you go in. you leave. they check your bag and no i.d. is needed. flooded with light. the windows on the right feed from the light, from the light ports, the windows on the left the light from bryant park. you always have a beautiful light filled room and the pavilion is where you get your books and the pneumatic tube system they installed in 1911 to retrieve your books from the stacks collection they were still using in the early 2000s. if they changed over to a computer system