![]() ![]() ![]() But as Sarah gets older, she begins to recognize the cycle of poverty the farm is caught in and dreams of an escape. She's a young girl in love with the land and the animals they care for, idealistic in the way we all are as children. One of 21 children, Sarah grows up on her family's small farm in rural southern Illinois, spending much of her childhood chasing after her older brothers, earning her stripes with every opportunity afforded her. It was nearly a hundred degrees and I felt like, as Sarah says so perfectly, so simply, part of the earth. I read this while standing on my back porch, the bottoms of my bare feet slightly scorched by the sun-warmed concrete. "When I was a little girl, I felt like part of the earth," writes Sarah Frey The Growing Season ![]()
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