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“People aspire to look the same on the right side as they do on the left,” says Antonio L. Alcorta, an ocularist in Fresno, Calif., who fits, forms and paints ocular prostheses.

After his father died, his mother married his ocularist, and Alcorta eventually took over his stepfather’s business.

“Many of them were made by an ocularist in Germany that specialized in making prostheses for human beings.”

But the ocularist came through, and on Christmas morning, Beckham unwrapped his new eye and immediately popped it in.

Each prosthetic eye is handmade by Beckham’s ocularist using the most recent mold of his eye socket.