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Liver recipient seeks fresh start

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Noah Dean Baker, left, and his partner, Ken Sprouls, look over the bill Baker received for a liver transplant at their home in Bloomington.

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Noah Dean Baker has a second chance at life, so he's remaking himself. Gone is the high-flying, well-dressed, heavy-drinking real estate professional who was more concerned about money, clothes and travel bonus points than helping his fellow man. "That's so far from who I am now," Baker, 47, said last week in the modest west-side home he owns with Ken Sprouls, his partner since 1997.