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An Ounce of Prevention
06.09.24 | Stories | Edited by Nancy Newbrough
My father was raised on a farm in Illinois and was put to work helping in the fields when he was five or six. Even though he left farming behind when he graduated from high school at 16 and pursued a career in business, later in life he...