Liver donor's family, recipient unite online
July 6, 2008 By JENNIFER C. YATES , Associated Press Writer
Keisha DeLapp, left, holds a picture of her older sister Amanda, who in 1984, died and her liver donated to Trine Engebretsen, who is seen in the photo that DeLapp's mother, Alisha, is holding at their home in Mayfield, Ky., June 16, 2008. Now, 25 years after the surgery that forever connected two families, Trine and the DeLapps are slated to meet for the first time in July when the U.S. Transplant Games are held in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Michael Dann)
(AP) -- They were precocious toddlers, both blond-haired and blue-eyed, separated by a thousand miles between Miami and a small Kentucky town.
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