A Little Girl at the K-9 Auction: The Day My Voice Found Me Again
I’m Emily Carter, and for six months after my mom, Officer Laura Carter, died in the line of duty, I didn’t speak a single word. At eight years old, I wandered alone into the bustling police K-9 auction in Cedar Falls, Iowa, desperate to feel close to my mom again. That day, something happened that changed my life—and everyone else’s—forever.
