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I don\u2019t usually let strangers get to me, but today almost pushed me over the edge. It started at the feed store when the clerk assumed I was lost and then asked if my \u201chusband\u201d would be loading my truck. I\u2019ve been running my 240-acre ranch alone for years, fixing water lines, birthing calves, and hauling hay. Yet people still assume I can\u2019t handle it because I\u2019m a woman.Even my neighbor, Roy, treats me like I\u2019m pretending to be a rancher. I\u2019ve patched his water line in a snowstorm, yet he still offers patronizing advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He\u2019ll say things like, \u201cDon\u2019t overwork yourself, sweetheart.\u201d Meanwhile, I patched his busted water line last winter in the middle of a snowstorm. I try to let it roll off, but it builds up. You get tired of proving yourself twice just to be seen as half capable. Then today, after all that, I got home and found a letter nailed to my barn door. No stamp. No return name. 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