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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people. And to search

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you get your podcasts. And now another story from Jake Kaiser. Jake is the author of Daffodil Hill,

uprooting my life, buying a farm, and learning to bloom,

which tells the story of the traumas she's faced and how moving to a farm in our small town of

Oxford, Mississippi, helped her heal. And today, she tells a more lighthearted story about the

culture shock she experienced while

meeting her neighbors after moving from the big city to the small town, and how that wasn't

necessarily a bad thing.

Here's Jake.

Thank you. After I moved here, the most surprising thing was how welcoming my neighbors were.

Of course they had some nosiness to them.

They wanted to see what was going on, who had moved in.

But one shows up on a tractor,

and I hear it coming up, I'm like,

there is a tractor, a freaking tractor coming at my driveway.

I'm not even sure the last time I've seen a tractor, especially one up close.

And the man, there was a man on it who was dressed nicely, jeans and boots, but he had

his shirt, he had a plaid shirt tucked in,

and just pulls right on up.

Wanted me to know about my property lines.

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