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  • Essay / Moving to the Country - 609

    When I was 13, my family bought a farm in Monkey's Elbow, Kentucky. I was used to the fast pace of the city I had lived in, Frankfurt. I thought moving from a city to a more rural area wouldn't have a big impact on me, but it did have a major effect. In late summer 2012, my family purchased the farm I now live on, located along Highway 146. Travel between our homes was unbearable. It took about three hours each, from the farm to Frankfurt, several times a day. Eventually my family moved to the farm entirely around June 2013, there was so much work to do. The previous owners owned twenty-three cats, two raccoons and three dogs. They had made a mess of this place. The breezeway smelled of raccoons and cat pee, but the landscaping was even more ruined due to the neglect of the last owners. The owners had not maintained their fences or the land they had. In the first month we were there we had removed at least two hundred fence posts and removed at least five miles of barbed wire which had only become rotten by vines and other....