47M I tried to switch to the modern view so I could quote you, but I couldn't figure it out. Your reply hit me like a ton of bricks. I grew up on a farm and spent my youth trying to get away. Now I find I have worked a good part of my adult life trying to get back to it. Here I am, close to fifty, working in town and on the farm, always looking to buy more ground. I'm afraid I will run out of life before I ever get to the point my father was.
I miss my father. I didn't realize just how wise he was till after he died. I wish I could remember everything he told me.
I do remember he said, "You buy your first 40 and you work your butt off on midnights at FEDDERS (factory) to pay for it. Then you mortgage the first 40 to buy the second one and farm and work midnights at FEDDERS to pay for it. He didn't tell me to do this, but this is what I have become.
I bet you and I are closer to becoming like our fathers than we realize.
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