Gift horse caps a very bad year on joyous note
After a year facing the kind of tragedy that would test a much older person, a smile spread across the face of 15-year-old Emma Savaglio last week when she walked into the barn and realized the ex-racehorse in the red bow was hers. After a tragic year that began when the family horse lost his battle with colic, only to be followed and compounded later by the inexorably sad death of a young girl’s 16-year-old boyfriend to cancer, Amy Savaglio and her teenage daughter Emma cried often and smiled rarely. As the months marched toward her daughter’s 16th birthday, Amy […]
