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KentuckyWoman

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Reply to haele (Reply #8)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:09 PM

Jun 21

I am from generations of farm people. By 2yrs old you were out there "helping". That was a small family farm. The big farms now are brutal work. You can't just wake up one day and decide you can pick lettuce for 16 hrs a day.

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