Girl With Artificial Limb Breaks Down After Getting Doll With Leg To Match Hers

By Shehzad in Feel Good On 10th June 2016
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It shows 10-year-old Emma Bennett receiving an American Girl doll. But what makes it so special is that the doll has a prosthetic limb just like hers.

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Since her mother Courtney put a video of her opening the video online, it's been viewed almost 30 million times.

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The video shows Emma shouting: ‘You got to be kidding me,' before hugging the doll and breaking down into tears adding: ‘It's got a leg like me'.

KHOU-TV reports Emma uses a prosthetic leg because of a birth defect. Her mother tells the station Emma always wanted a doll that looked like her.

#4 Watch the video here!

Courtney Bennett mentions in the video that she sent the doll to a company, A Step Ahead Prosthetics, to have it outfitted with a prosthetic limb.

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In a statement on its website, the New York company says it provides the service for free to little girls with limb loss.