because they expected to see each other again at the feed store, at church, at the county co-op, or broken down on the shoulder of Highway 72 with a flat tire and no cell signal.
When Mr. Rollins died, things changed slowly at first and then all at once.
His children did not want cattle. They did not want a weathered farmhouse or a barn leaning into its own shadow. They wanted money, which was their right. About a year after the funeral, the property sold to Brent and Laurel
