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The farm has been

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close to my heart all my life.

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To me, a farm is just a good place to be.

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This is the farm that she grew up on.

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We\'ve been here now for 18 years.

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I always felt that someone that\'s raised on a farm,

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they can almost do anything.

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I just feel like it\'s a real good training place for young people.

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Sometimes

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you wish you were older, that way you wouldn\'t have to get

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all the orders and you can give some orders too.

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After I\'m out of school I plan on staying on the farm

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for at least a couple of years

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and then I want to go to college

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and I really do not know

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exactly what I want to do yet,

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but I\'m hoping maybe scientist

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of some sort.

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We always had younger children to help us here on the farm,

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which worked out pretty good.

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We had their income to subsidize, which helped.

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So then as the children

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got older and left home,

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we didn\'t have that income

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anymore.

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Last year was horrible.

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The milk prices were lower than they\'ve almost ever been,

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I think.

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And so when you figure the price of gas,

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food, equipment, repairs

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and all that, you just don\'t make it

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in a year like that.

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I work at another job for Kalona Oil

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for a little over a year now.

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Just for some more income.

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We had a pretty big debt to,

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or we have a pretty big debt to undo.

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Kevin had graduated from high school.

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So he was here to sort of

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take on the farming responsibilities.

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It\'s what I like to do.

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I like working with animals.

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I like operating machinery and

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it is just something I enjoy.

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It\'s five or six in the morning until nine, ten at night.

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And you don\'t really have much time

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to relax and just take it easy.

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It is a lot of responsibility right now that I\'m not sure I want.

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I would hope that out of nine children that one of them

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would have a desire to take the farm on

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and that\'s our goal.

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But I guess it doesn\'t have to be if it doesn\'t work out.

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So.

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It\'s something each generation strives to improve.

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To let a farm go that my grandparents have struggled to build,

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my parents have struggled to build, just, it just don\'t seem right.

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I\'m not ready for it now, but if it would come to the point where

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we\'d either let it go or I would keep going,

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I would probably try to keep it going

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even though I don\'t think I\'m ready for it,

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it\'s just I don\'t know if I want to let it go.

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You know, we, we\'re trying to do what we can to,

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to keep things going here.

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As a parent you want your children to be happy,

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you want them to enjoy what they\'re doing.

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But sometimes that\'s easier said than done.

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I really don\'t know how my feelings would be

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if it wouldn\'t work out.

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It\'s close to my heart.

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It would be difficult.

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But you know,

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life isn\'t all easy.

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You want to take it however it comes.

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Living in my small town it was kind of

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like a tar pit, you know?

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You don\'t really sink into it

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but you\'re not getting out of it.

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In a small town there\'s not much to do.

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You either go boating, fishing, camping.

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There\'s not a whole heck of a lot.

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So what do you do?

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You go to the bar.

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If the bars disappeared,

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I think the town would kinda just fizzle out.

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And I spent every single night up there

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You always have the same crowd.

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That was just the place where everybody was.

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I started becoming the person I never wanted to be,

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and that was that barfly.

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The girl that everybody was like she had so much potential,

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now what\'s happened to her?

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When I had seperated from my ex-husband,

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the stress was so bad.

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I couldn\'t handle it.

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I just mentally wanted to check out.

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There\'s only 3 things you can do in Iowa.

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Drink, do drugs, or have sex.

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In my small town, they would condemn me to hell.

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That\'s not Christian.

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Well you know what? No it\'s not,

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but that\'s what I needed at that time.

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If I didn\'t get out

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I probably would have ended up a major alcoholic.

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I would have ended up the town whore.

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And just drinking myself into a stupor.

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I didn\'t want to be that person.

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A lot of people are afraid of what\'s outside of that small town.

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They don\'t understand that

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there\'s such a bigger world out there.

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A lot of people stay because that\'s where their family is.

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When it comes to moving, they just can\'t do it.

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Everybody needs to figure out where they\'re happy.

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This may be the life you want to live,

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but this is not the life I wanna live.

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I don\'t want to stay here.

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To me, moving from Iowa

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to Denver, was just as easy as

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changing the brand of mascara I use.

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I kind of felt like

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Iowa was hindering all of my hopes and dreams.

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I know now, I knew then,

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and I\'ve known since I was really young,

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I am destined to do great things.

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What they are yet, I don\'t know.

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But it\'s not to sit in town and wait

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for this great opportunity to land in my lap.

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Those things don\'t happen.

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Those are fairy tales that

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people from small towns tell their children

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to keep them close at home.

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You can do everything here in a small town

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that you can do in a big city.

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That is a fat lie. You can\'t.

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Hell yes, I love Iowa.

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What is there not to love about Iowa?

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I love it here.

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Iowa seriously has the nicest people in the entire country.

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Babe, this is where we are going to jump.

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I\'m so fucking scared, you don\'t even know.

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Because that is no good.

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We don\'t want to jump over other rocks.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey listen, just fucking jump off that bitch

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and flip like three times and you\'ll be cool.

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Hell no.

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Just jump off of that fucker.

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Just jump outwards.

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Oh, God.

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There you go, yeah. Holy shit.

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Dude, Zack in my opinion smoking pot\'s

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alright but fucking dude,

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you start fucking

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dropping crank,

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smoking that shit.

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Ok, Chad, listen though.

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Banging that shit dude, no.

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Dude it\'s just not straight.

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You just, no.

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But Chad, listen to this though.

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You stay up for weeks at a fucking time, dude.

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Days, weeks. It\'s not cool, no.

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But you\'re missing the point though.

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You\'re missing the point, dude.

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I think you need to drop some acid and find yourself.

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Exactly.

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Asshole.

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Owwww. That fucking hurt.

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Careful, don\'t cut yourself.

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You want me to chug it and shit?

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Yeah, put it up, up to your mouth first,

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crack it open, slam that bitch.

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I\'ll do it standing.

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Yeah, buddy.

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I am all that is man, that\'s what you say.

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I am all that is man. That\'s what I say.

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Right now, Do it Chad, do it, you got to go

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You gotta go first.

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Fine, fuck it.

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I don\'t think that it mattered that I was there

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so I don\'t know.

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Felt kind of like a waste of my time and I think...

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Like ninety percent of the people there

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I can probably say that

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feel the same way as what I do.

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We spent way too much money and time and effort in to this

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and it\'s not going to matter how long we\'re there.

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We\'re not going to make a difference.

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Everybody who went with me last time who

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I consider a close friend is going again.

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I would feel like a shit bag if I didn\'t go.

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It\'s not for the cause or anything like that.

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These guys feel like they are my brothers.

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So I\'m gonna go with them.

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I know in Iowa every small town

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has had a lot of Hispanics coming into it.

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I think the Midwest was one of the last places

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to become integrated,

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but we\'re integrated now

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and that\'s the way it is.

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The residents of the town have changed.

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At one time this was a small community,

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had probably 100 people.

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They were all white working middle class people.

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Now, it\'s over, I\'d say two-thirds of the town population

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is Hispanic which,

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don\'t get me wrong, a lot of them are really nice people.

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They are tax payers, they work hard,

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they take care of their property,

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and then of course, you

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always have a few bad eggs.

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We\'re starting to get gang problems.

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We also have a drug problem we never used to have.

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And the quality of life has went downhill.

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It was the late eighties

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before we started seeing

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the Hispanic coming into this.

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My father hired a few.

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But my brother and I are the ones that carried it on

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to the extent that we have today.

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We\'re allowed to say we need

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this number of agricultural workers

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on a temporary basis

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and then they\'re given their Visas

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to come in with our names to work

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a specific period of time.

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People think that

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guest worker program might be cheap labor.

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To us it\'s not cheap labor for farm work.

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And the wages are going up year after year.

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If he has 1,200 here next year

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that\'s three times our local population.

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We can\'t handle it.

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We don\'t have a law enforcement,

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we don\'t have the monetary assets to handle it.

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We\'re not minimizing their concerns. We understand it.

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It\'s a lot of people.

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It\'s a lot of transient people in their mind.

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But they\'re really not so transient.

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They come here and they go home.

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It\'s very hard work. You\'re bent over all day long. It\'s hot.

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And the Hispanic workers

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know exactly what needs to be picked

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and it works real well.

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I\'ve known Mr. Bell for a lot of years

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and Mr. Bell is Mr. Bell.

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He\'s in there to make a profit which I don\'t blame him.

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He has to make a living too.

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But he\'s putting an unfunded mandate

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on the community.

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We can\'t afford it.

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It used to be there were so many farms,

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and there were kids on those farms that wanted summer jobs.

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That used to be who did this work.

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And you can\'t find very many farm kids anymore period.

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There are just aren\'t a lot of them.

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The kids around here quit doing that because

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they tried to run them 10, 12, 14 hours a day.

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While I understand the push,

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but we\'re talking teenage kids.

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And you can\'t push them that hard.

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So he brought in the migrants.

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Well he also pays them less than

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what he was having to pay the local kids.

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Because the local kids can go work at a grocery store

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for 6, 8 hours and make the same kind of money

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and not have to work near as hard.

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You always hear that argument.

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If you paid more

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you wouldn\'t have to bring all these people in.

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That\'s not true.

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There just aren\'t the available people

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to do this kind of work.

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We could be paying

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$30 an hour

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and we would not get the people here to do the job

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we need done, because it\'s temporary.

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They can\'t have the job long enough

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to do people that live here much good.

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We\'ll see you guys.

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Take care, Tom.

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Thank you.

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We advertise in all the local papers.

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Got one young man from the area that came

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and applied and I hired him.

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But there\'s very, very few that come

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and want to put those hours in.

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All the people that we brought in over the years,

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I don\'t think there is over one or two or three that

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we have actually not brought back because they didn\'t work.

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They\'re good people.

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And I enjoy working with hard-working people.

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They worked the dog dirt out of the, their temporary help.

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And they sleep in that migrant camp over there.

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It would probably be 100 degrees at 10:00 at night.

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I mean, it\'s terrible.

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We feel a responsibility to them.

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We couldn\'t get our jobs done without them.

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We appreciate what they do for us.

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We hope it\'s good for them, they\'re good for us.

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Some people feel that if you say no about anything,

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that makes you a racist.

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Well, I\'m sorry, that isn\'t true.

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If you can\'t have an opinion then you might

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might as well be in Soviet Russia.

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I feel that the people in this community

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have a right to have their say in what

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becomes of their community.

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If somebody else doesn\'t like it, too bad.

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I used to butcher with my dad.

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I\'d go with him when I was real small.

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Might have started just to get a nickel or dime

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to run over to the grocery store

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and get me a little bit of candy.

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I did that until I was drafted in 1968.

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Then in 1989, my dad died and

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then a few months later my mom died

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and I just thought if I

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butchered it would be a lot like

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when my dad was still alive,

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so here I am.

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I\'ve been butchering for 50 years.

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Got a few more years then I can retire

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and get all this behind me.

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This place hasn\'t changed a bit.

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It looked just like this when

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I butchered here 30 years ago.

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Just about every little town had their own butcher shop.

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The state had so many laws,

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the little places couldn\'t

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afford to keep up with them so they

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started dropping out.

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And where all the people went, I don\'t know.

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I make $20 a head for beef,

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$11 a head for a hog.

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Seems like nobody is making any money,

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but you go buy a $12 T-bone,

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somebody is making money somewhere.

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You can\'t depend on a certain number of head in a week.

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I might make 80 bucks one week

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and 500 the next.

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The costs keep going up but

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your wages always stay the same.

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Two Twenty.

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Probably not making much more than my dad did

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when he was butchering.

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I don\'t think I\'d care to see

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the kids follow in my steps.

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My son don\'t want no part of it,

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and I don\'t blame him.

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Get something that you want to do

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and not something that you have to do.

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It\'s hard.

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Makes an old man out of you fast.

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Sometimes it kind of gets to me.

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Sometimes I wonder if I have the right to kill an animal.

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Somebody\'s gotta butcher these livestock for the farmers.

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Somebody\'s always going to have to be doing that.

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I try and kill them as humanely as I can

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with one shot but

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sometimes it doesn\'t always happen.

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I wouldn\'t have a problem finding another job

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but I\'ve done this so long,

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just kind of hard to quit.

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Low\'s to mid 40s northeast to the lower 60s in the southwest

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for Saturday,

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partly cloudy lows 25 to 35.

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Highs around 40 north to mid-fifties south.

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And for Sunday partly cloudy, lows 25 to 35, highs in the mid...

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We were married in \'63.

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I was kind of slow about getting married.

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I was 35.

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And I figured the good Lord was

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the one that introduced us to each other.

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On the 4th of July

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my wife and I used to back the car in up

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in the front yard.

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We could see

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the fireworks.

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Cedar Rapids, Marion, Anamosa.

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It was a challenge to be looking at

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the right place at the right time.

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We spent our life together.

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We were one, a pair, I can say.

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If I told her I was going to go out and do chores,

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she would say, \"Oh and leave me here alone?\"

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But if I would say, \"I\'m going to go out and

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turn on the water I\'ll be right back,

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I\'d get away with it.

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There just isn\'t anything here on the farm anymore.

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You\'d be far better off to have a profession in town

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that paid a respectable wage.

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I\'m still farming today

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to have enough income to exist.

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When the few of us

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that were family farmers are gone,

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that\'s going to be it.

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Everything is corporate now.

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The chemical companies are in control.

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We don\'t think of the soil having living elements.

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But when they put insecticide

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on the soil it kills everything off.

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The amino acids that have been genetically altered

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out of our food is the reason I say that we\'re

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starving to death on a full stomach.

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We have plenty of food.

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But the nutritional value is just not there.

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Alzheimer\'s, it\'s a nutritional problem.

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She had memory loss

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for several years before they told us it was Alzheimer\'s.

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I think of it as an ailment, not a disease.

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And it is a real cruel ailment.

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There isn\'t anything they can heal

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once the damage has been done.

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She wanted to be at home.

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So I took care of her at home.

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And I\'d do it again.