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I'm Tanya Wilmoth. I grew up on a farm in southwest Missouri and I went to church with farm people and for a while I went to school with farm people.

That was before my mom petitioned the school board

to let me go to the school where she was teaching.

But I was schooled in the commandments of farm people.

And the number one commandment to end all others was this.

Don't ask for help unless you plan on returning the favor.

Reciprocity. That is how we slept at night. You couldn't possibly have a good night's rest if you owed

someone a dime or a favor. Now you might be thinking, those are nice folks and that's the

right thing to do and you would be right by that. But I actually

think it was more about our pride than anything else. We looked down on people who couldn't

pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get the hay in the barn on time, and we sure as heck didn't want to be those people.

This always came to a head in the summer months, especially the long days in June.

We had our own hay to cut and bail.

And don't assume that when I say we,

I was any help whatsoever in this endeavor.

So my dad had hay to cut and rake and bail in that kind of order, and we had neighbors that would

come about with this, because there's nothing worse than having your hay down when a rainstorm comes.

But either then he had to help out all those neighbors for helping him, or maybe he was trying

to get as much time out of the house and on the tractor as possible, because he was always

peak busy on June 12th, which also happened to be my

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