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Two families united through a unique liver transplant at Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital.

Annie Larrabee and Justin Tibbs donated liver parts to save two children's lives.

The surgeries marked Utah's first pediatric paired liver exchange; both children are thriving.

SALT LAKE CITY — In what can only be billed as a heroes reunion, two groups of families and friends, strangers to each other, met Friday at Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital to celebrate life.

Two specific lives, in fact.

A baby, Elieanna "Elie" Tibbs of St. George, was in dire need of a liver due to biliary atresia, a condition that causes the contents of her bile ducts to back up into her liver, putting her life in grave danger. Her parents couldn't help her. Justin Tibbs, her dad, 36, wa

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