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9-year-old Ava has hereditary spastic paraplegia, so it was difficult for her to use a standard controller to play video games — until her tech-savvy dad Rory came up with a brilliant solution. Rory built a custom controller so that Ava and her brother can play games to their heart's content. When Ava played video games with the controller for the very first time, she couldn't stop smiling.

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