Bows for Justine

This is Emma, a 10-year-old from Texas who just got the greatest gift of her life. Emma lives with a prosthetic leg. When her family wanted to surprise her with a doll, they got one with a prosthetic leg just like hers.

Emma’s new friend had come from A Step Ahead Prosthetics, a New York-based prosthetics company that also customizes American Girl dolls to fit them with prosthetic limbs.

The doll came with a letter giving the its backstory, which Emma’s mom Courtney Fletcher Bennett read to her.

“After she arrived, she was given a room to stay in while her new leg was made. She was fitted with the leg in her favorite color, pink, and started walking right away,” reads the letter. “After a few weeks of training to walk and run in her new prosthetic, she is ready to go home and live her life without limitations, with you.”

A spokesperson for A Step Ahead told BuzzFeed News the company will “customize a doll with prosthetics at no charge to anyone who wants to send one.”

“We fabricate each doll prosthesis here in our shop alongside the ‘real’ prosthetics that we make for our patients, and we paint each one by hand,” Daniel Klepner said in an email.He said the company’s philosophy is that the customized dolls “can have a profound effect on the self-esteem and sense of inclusion” of kids with limb loss.