GALETON — Taylor Starks will always remember Valentine’s Day 2012 as one of a broken heart.
But the heartache the 12-year-old suffered that afternoon — when her parents picked her up from school and told her that a barn fire had claimed the lives of all six of her goats, animals with whom she had spent more time than with friends and family, grooming and training for shows — is now being mended by a community that’s wasted no time showing her how much they care.
While Taylor’s goat herd was diminished to nothing during a Feb. 14 blaze that destroyed a 100-year-old barn next to her family’s Galeton-area home, it has nearly doubled in the short time since that fire, all thanks to donations from her church, neighbors, local breeders and strangers who want the show to go on for the Eaton Elementary School sixth-grader.
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