Liver donor's family, recipient unite online

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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 DeLapps mother Alisha is holding at their home in Mayfield Ky. June 16 2008. Now 25 years after t ...
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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