Scout Gabrielle Miller Torres

The Prodigal Farmchild

The Prodigal Farmchild

Some kids stay with the farm until they are old and bitter and wish for “a better life.” Maybe they should have left. Some of them quit early, leave right away and sell the farm when their parents pass. Maybe they should have stayed. Others live in the trenches of those feelings and those wonderings until it all crushes them. Who can say which path is right for a person: the paved road out or the washboard dirt road back in?