Colton also spoke of meeting a long-departed relative in heaven, \ntelling NBC News: “I was just sitting by the Holy Spirit and then this \nguy comes up to me and says, ‘Are you Todd’s son?’ I say yes, and he \nsays, ‘Well, I’m his grandfather.’ ”\n

Colton said that everyone in heaven has wings. On Monday, he \ndescribed his great-grandfather “Pops” as being “very big, huge wings, \ncurly hair, a big smile, and he was very nice.”

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But the real shocker came when Colton told his mother, “Mommy, I have\n two sisters.” Sonja told her son that he had to be referring to his \noldest sister, Cassie, and his cousin Traci, but he responded: “No — I \nhave two sisters. You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?”

Sonja told Lauer the family had never uttered a word about the \nmiscarriage to Colton — and what’s more, they never even learned the sex\n of their miscarried child. “It was a private hurt that we didn’t even \nshare with our friends,” Sonja said, adding Colton’s revelation was at \nfirst “shocking, but then a relief that she’s OK, which we didn’t know \nshe was a she.”

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In a subsequent TODAY segment Monday, Sonja filled in Colton’s \ndescription of his meeting with his sister: “He told us what she looked \nlike, and she wouldn’t stop hugging him. And she doesn’t have a name.”

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“When he told us about his sister in heaven, that we hadn’t told him \nabout, [it was] another one of those ‘holy cow’ moments — OK, he can’t \nmake this stuff up, he can’t invent this; no memory was planted,” Todd \ntold Lauer. “But the peace that came over us, and the healing, like, \n‘Wow, I have a daughter in heaven waiting for me’ — I think a lot of \npeople need that type of hope and healing, too. And I think that’s what a\n lot of people are finding when they hear Colton’s testimony, to know \nwhat they have to look forward to.”

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When Lauer asked Colton what heaven looked like, the 11-year-old \nreplied, “Well, there’s a lot of color. There are a lot of people and a \nlot of angels.”

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