Her blue mud boots peeking out from the bottom of a floral pink and green sundress, the young girl carefully walked up a 1-by-6 board leading to the chicken coop. The hem of the dress she clutched with her hand — speckled with dirt from a day of feeding pigs and lambs — brushed the wooden plank.
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