When Jerry was 16 months old, he tragically drowned. His heart was transplanted into Carter, a 7-month-old boy with congenital heart disease. Years later, when Jerry's mother, a physician and self-proclaimed "natural born skeptic," met Carter, she was struck by similarities to her son. "Carter is 6 [years old]," she observed, "but he was talking Jerry's baby talk and playing with my nose just like Jerry did." Carter's mother also witnessed extraordinary behaviors in her son after the heart transplant. "I saw Carter go to her," she reported, referring to Jerry's mother. "He never does that. He is very, very shy, but he went to her just like he used to run to me when he was a baby. When he whispered 'It's okay, Mama,' I broke down. He called her mother."