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Dear Grandpa, Are you aware that you can still get social security income if you act now? Did you know that Capital One and Visa want to give you credit cards? Magazines offering tractor and farm equipment deals, building up on my table. There's an old farm hat in the barn on a pitchfork handle, waiting for its owner. Orchards are overgrowing, the trees with their sprouts and limbs busting. Fields in the hands of new owners, being cultivated, some by your sons. Your "closest friends" all showing up at my door to ask if you're around. Your "closest friends" showing up at my door, asking for hay, or to hunt. The sheds and barns all in need of repair, the roofs are in need of replacing. With fences to mend, equipment to fix, this farm never ceases its needing. There are tools rusting in longing of use. Cupboards and shelves full of oil. You've been gone for twenty long years, seems like no one else knows it. But never let it be said that those who truly were close, forgot what we lost. Your family still misses you dearly... I just thought that you should know it. Your grandson, Jesse.
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