My father-in-law had died young, leaving my mother-in-law, Fiona, to raise four children almost entirely on her own.
She spent most of her life working farmland in rural Ohio, planting corn and soybeans season after season.
There was no comfortable retirement waiting for her.
No insurance.
No savings plan.
No pension.
Only decades of physical labor.
By the time I joined the family, Fiona’s children had all grown up and moved on with their own lives.
They rarely visited her.
Some weeks, they called.
Other times, they didn’t even do
