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16-year-old hopes to find forever family, uses video games as an outlet

"I'm proud of everything I've endured. It's a minor setback for a major comeback."

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - "No matter how dark the night, morning always comes and our journey begins anew."

That is a direct quote from the video game Final Fantasy 10 and it perfectly describes one foster teen's story.

16-year old Cameron is a self-described gamer and in his playbook? The best move of all: finding a family to adopt him. And it's game time.

Cameron loves to play and his dream is to design games one day.

"I like mainly the ones that have a good storyline because I don't like just sitting there playing a boring game. I like action," Cameron said. "Like Minecraft, take that for example, it's a fun game because you get to think and build and it helps you with your math."

For Cameron, the console brings comfort and a means to escape.

Today, he's playing with Jerald Smith with Mobile Video Game Station, a truck that travels just about anywhere so game lovers can point, click and play just about any game they want.

"We have anything you would like, anything you would like to play," Smith said.

Today, Smith had quite the competitor with Cameron, who even taught him a trick or two.

"I also like Call of Duty, Halo, and shooting games because it helps me get my anger out," he said. "I don't know how it works but it just helps me release my anger into the game instead of releasing it out on someone else."

It's understandable why Cameron was upset after our years in foster care and a failed adoption. He's been through more foster homes than he says he can even count.

But gaming lets him be in 'the zone.'

"Everything around me just fades away and I'm just playing the game," he said.

While he's playing games, it's clear Cameron's 'in the zone,' but that doesn't mean he isn't open about what he wants as a teenager learning to trust again.

"Just a family that'll care for me and a family that'll take me for who I am and what I like to do," he said.
"It doesn't matter to me, just somebody that cares. I'm a caring person. I may mess up sometimes but I'll end up apologizing and forgiving for what people have done to me and what I've done to people."

In the meantime, Cameron is simulating and creating his own game of life, fixing the glitches and writing a playbook that ends with him adopted and part of a family

"I'm gonna keep my head up," Cameron said. "There's always hope if you believe in God just pray to him every night. I'm proud of everything I've endured. It's a minor setback for a major comeback."

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