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10. With all due respect

this place I grew up in was still an agrarian community. You know that old Hillary expression "it takes a village", it was. Back then, people looked out for each other. You could count on your neighbor to pull you out of a snowbank if you got stuck. Even at -23 degrees, I still had to shovel a huge driveway, wade through deep snow with a 100 pound burlap bag of oats to feed the horses, and take a pick axe to the barn to break up the poop in the stalls and shovel it out. Not to mention all the other animals that had to be fed and watered. My neighbors down the road were milking about 100 head so they were busy too. As a kid we had responsibilities to livestock. When I say life went on, I meant it. Not just for me but for all the other lives that depended on me - even during the worst weather. My memory is not hazy, and I don't think of these as sweet childhood moments.