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Crevolyn Wiley: No teen girl wants to pick corn, but the payoff is sweet
Lessons from daddy cultivate appreciation for farmers
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I’ve had many jobs over the years but one I don’t miss at all is the corn-picking job I was assigned as a teenager. Apparently, my parents thought a good way to keep a girl out of trouble during those long summer days was to put her in rows of corn. My grandparents had some property where my parents would plant a garden every summer.