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ALI
I’d gone away to college. To Chile. Australia. I’d been away from home for years. I thought I’d changed a lot during that time. Grown up. Become independent. Even deciding to return and work the family land, which put me back into the same bedroom I’d grown up in, I felt… different.
But after a few days with Holt and Theo, I saw everything about the Jenkins Ranch in a new way. What the place meant to me. My role as a steward of the land from one generation to the next. Keeping it just as my great-grandparents had made it for my own kids. With some additions like indoor plumbing and Internet, of course.
I wanted to be a rancher. But I didn’t want to do it alone any longer, and I wasn’t thinking of doing it with my father, not after this week. I wanted to have Holt and Theo with m
