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Here's the moment when a mom hears her baby's heart beating in another baby's body

VIDEO: Here's the moment when a mom hears her baby's heart beating in another baby's body
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Here's the moment when a mom hears her baby's heart beating in another baby's body
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PHOTO: Genevieve Shaw-Brown
ByGenevieve Shaw Brown
August 02, 2019, 1:44 pm

Cash Landers was a loving and very much loved 2-year-old boy whose favorite things were planes, trains and his big sister Sierra.

"He loved everyone," his mom Brooke Eaton told "Good Morning America." "He never met a stranger, and he loved to share."

And share he did. When Cash died tragically from drowning in 2018, his mom donated his organs -- including his heart -- to people in need. That heart was given to 1-year-old Lola Bonds, who has cardiomyopathy, a disease that results in an enlarged heart. Her heart was crushing her surrounding organs and she was running out of time.

PHOTO: Cash Landers before his tragic death in 2018.
Cash Landers before his tragic death in 2018.
Brooke Eaton
PHOTO: Cash Landers and his older sister, Sierra.
Cash Landers and his older sister, Sierra.
Brooke Eaton

(More: Mom shares story of son's near-death drowning experience to warn other parents)

Earlier this week, Eaton and Lola met at University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital and Eaton got to hear her son's heart beating in the body of the child he saved.

PHOTO: Lola Bond was the recipient of a life-saving heart transplant.
Lola Bond was the recipient of a life-saving heart transplant.
Margaret Bond Vorel

"Lola reached out to me and I broke down, I cried," Eaton told "GMA." "We bonded instantly and it felt so right."

(More: See the incredible moment a deaf toddler hears her mom say 'I love you' for 1st time)

The Pekin, Illinois mom of Cash and his older sister and "best friend" Sierra told "GMA" Cash would have been happy to meet Lola too. "He would have hugged her immediately," she said. "I know Cash is always with us."

The emotional meeting was captured by University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital. In it, Lola's grandmother, Margaret Bond Vorel said, "There's no doubt we wouldn't have Lola if we hadn't received this miracle. It is amazing."

Eaton said that her grief from losing her son "comes in waves."

But the gift of saving Lola's life, she said, has given her " a new outlook. Whenever I get down,: she said, "Cash comes to me and he tells me the world is gorgeous. 'Life is beautiful, mama,' he says 'and you have a long time to go.'"

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