Скачать или смотреть He Was 14 When His Father Died — Everyone Said Sell the Farm He Raised 3 Siblings Alone Instead

On a March morning in 1974, a tractor rolled over on a frozen hill
in Lancaster County, Nebraska. The driver—forty-one-year-old Robert
Ferris—was killed instantly. He left behind a paralyzed wife, a
fourteen-year-old son named Jimmy, and three younger children who
had no idea their lives were about to change forever. Everyone told
Jimmy to sell the farm. To let the county take the kids. To save
himself. He refused. For the next ten years, Jimmy Ferris worked
320 acres alone, raised his siblings, kept his family together, and
gave up everything a boy is supposed to have—school, friends,
birthdays, a future. When his youngest sister graduated high school
in 1984, Jimmy was twenty-four years old. He looked fifty.

This story draws from real agricultural history of the 1970s-80s.
Characters and dialogue are dramatized for storytelling.

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