PRINCETON — As Joe Turner remembers it, “a switch turned off” in Emma when she was 2 years old. Suddenly his once-rambunctious black English Lab calmed down, her eager, friendly disposition taking on a decidedly placid air. She still liked to lie in the snow and go swimming, but something was…
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