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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

'Amazing' schoolboy dreams of becoming real-life 'Iron Man'

A determined boy born with just one arm has big dreams of becoming a real-life Iron Man with the help of a high-tech bionic arm.

Mason Palmer, eight, from West Derby, had no interest in stiff, rubbery prosthetic limbs that only covered up his missing left arm. But when he had the chance to try a functional 3D-printed bionic arm, he experienced life with two hands for the very first time.

His dad Alex, 44, said: "Mason is such a character and nothing ever stops him from doing what he wants to do. Because he was born without a left hand, he knows no different. He plays football, he goes to karate, he wants to start playing rugby. Nothing will stop him.

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