BLACKSBURG, Va., April 15 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Ardie has a gift forreading people.
The 13-year-old baythoroughbredgeldingpicksup onwhat a person is carrying before they say a word:the stiffness of a first responder whohasn'tfully exhaled in years, the careful stillness of someone learning to trust again. He notices, and then he gets curious, and somehow that curiosity becomes an invitation.
When a fractured elbow threatened to end that work last November, the team at the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center steppedin andgaveArdiea second chance.
The Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Centerin Leesburgis one of threeteaching hospitals andanimal healthcare facilitie...