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As a farmer's daughter, and later during the first five years of my previous 19-year-marriage, a farmer's wife, the standing rule was to never say anything about how things were going, such as "How's harvest?" The answer to that was always "I'll tell you when it is over."

I broke that rule.

In a recent column in this space, I reported that I was finally well after living through one illness aft...