Florida: Eight-year old Morgan Kelly is just like any other girl who enjoys playing with dolls. But imagine being a young girl and playing with dolls, which don't look quite like you.
Growing up with a disability isn't always easy. That's what eight-year-old Kelly, who has the muscle weakening disease -- spinal muscular atrophy -- faced and it prompted her to look to her mother for answers.
Says she, "I was wondering why can't there be a doll in a wheelchair and I asked mom and we went searching on websites. We just couldn't find one."
That troubled her mother, who couldn't understand why they couldn't get their hands on a disabled barbie doll.
Says Morgan's mother, Angela Floyd, "The clincher was when she looked at me and said don't they think handicapped people are pretty enough to be a Barbie and that really got me."
They wrote to Mattel - the makers of Barbie and found out the company did make a wheelchair-bound doll called Becky.
Even though the company stopped manufacturing the doll in 1997, they found one for Morgan and sent it to her.
"There was a huge box and I said wow mommy it looks like me and I Iiked it," says Morgan.
Her mother wasn't looking for a freebie but she appreciates the fact that the company made the effort to find the doll that reminds her of her daughter.
"They did something way beyond the call of duty. I mean, sending Morgan the doll is beautiful and they got it from a toy library though I don't know where it's located," says Angela.
And it really doesn't matter to this young girl where the toy library is. She hasn't let her disability stop her from doing things like cheerleading.
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