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Trine laughs, cries with family of child whose liver saved her life
Miami Herald
Trine Engebretsen dreamed about meeting the family of Amanda DeLapp—the organ donor who saved her life.
She didn’t know it then, but her donor’s family had the same dream.
The strangers cried and laughed together for hours Friday afternoon when they finally met at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.
Twenty-four years ago, a gravely ill Engebretsen became Florida’s first liver-transplant recipient. The sickly 2-year-old was saved by the grief-stricken parents of Amanda DeLapp, a Kentucky tot whose liver was donated after she died of a brain tumor.
