OMAHA, Neb. —

Nearly 10 years ago, KETV brought viewers the story of the Simpson family.

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The family's daughter, Alex, is extremely unique; she was born with hydranencephaly, a rare condition with an extremely low survival rate.

"(Hydranencephaly) means that her brain is not there, not half a brain, her whole brain. Technically, she has about half the size of my pinky finger of her cerebellum in the back part of her brain, but that's all that's there," Alex's dad, Shawn Simpson, said.

Now, almost a decade later, we're back as the family celebrates another milestone birthday for their daughter.

When asked how their daughter got here, when doctors initially told them she wouldn't live past 4 years old, parents Lorena and Shawn Simpson answered "love."

Lorena and Sha

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