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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">The shares are held as follows:  933 shares by Sanderling V Limited Partnership (&quot;SV LP&quot;), 830 shares by Sanderling V Beteiligungs, GmbH &amp; Co. KG (&quot;Beteiligungs&quot;), 9,421 shares by Sanderling Venture Partners V, L.P. (&quot;SVPV&quot;), 2,307 shares by Sanderling V Biomedical, L.P. (&quot;Biomedical&quot;) and 5,783 shares by Sanderling V Ventures Management (&quot;SVVM&quot;).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Immed.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Not applicable.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">1-for-1</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">The shares are held as follows:  54,119 shares by SV LP, 48,155 shares by Beteiligungs, 546,102 shares by SVPV, 133,766 shares by Biomedical and 7,900 shares by SVVM.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">The shares are held as follows:  21,904 shares by SV LP, 19,490 shares by Beteiligungs, 221,026 shares by SVPV, 54,139 shares by Biomedical and 3,197 shares by SVVM.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">1.086614-for-1</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">The shares are held as follows:  68,604 shares by SV LP, 61,044 shares by Beteiligungs, 96,557 shares by SVPV, 23,651 shares by Biomedical, 8,381 shares by SVVM, 361,021 shares by Sanderling Venture Partners V Co-Investment Fund, L.P. (&quot;Venture Co-Investment&quot;), and 218,874 shares by Sanderling V Biomedical Co-Investment Fund, L.P. (&quot;Biomedical Co-Investment&quot;).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F9">Middleton, McNeil &amp; Mills Associates V, LLC (&quot;MMM&quot;) is the general partner of SVLP, Beteiligungs, SVPV, Biomedical, Venture Co-Investment and Biomedical Co-Investment.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>All Reporting Persons disclaim beneficial ownership of shares of Favrille, Inc.
stock held by the other Reporting Persons herein, except to the extent of their
respective pecuniary interest therein, if any. The filing of this statement
shall not be deemed an admission that, for purposes of Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or otherwise, any of the Reporting Persons are
the beneficial owners of all of the equity securities covered by this statement.</remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>See Exhibit 99</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2005-02-09</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
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