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I have to admit that growing up on a mixed farm in a sparsely populated, wide-open area wasn’t always agreeable to me. There were a lot of parts I tolerated or resigned myself to, and even some parts I enjoyed, but there were extremely few things I actually loved. Yes, I’d always hear about how lucky I was to be raised in the country with the clean, pure air, but some of the time it just went against my grain.

I loved rounding up the milk cows, helping sort

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