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"So Doug and Cara broke up. Did you hear?" Melissa, my high school bestie, was catching me up on all the town gossip. We were at the Bullhorn Bar with Trina, another old friend.
Being here, I had that fish out of water feeling. I'd only been back at West Springs for a few weeks after years away at college. Everything was the same. Everything except for me, it seemed.
I'd always planned to return home. I got my degree in agriculture so I could take over the family ranch, which I considered a privilege. But that didn’t change how strange it was to be back permanently after being away for so long. I hadn’t even returned for the last few summers because I’d been working on ranches in Australia and Chile. I figured I’d better see the world before my free time ran out and small town li
