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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Knowing
Vegetables
Come
Weed
Men
Farmers
Sweat
Seeds
Fraction
Patient
Fractions
Week
Weeds
Days
Farming

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