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> [“This history argument holds absolutely no weight with my dad. He’s not sentimental in this way, does not linger on the past. Old stuff, in Dad’s mind, means less efficiency, more work, more to repair. But for me the barn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-hoffert/this-history-argument-holds-absolutely-no-weight-with-my-dad-he-s-not/)

Melanie Hoffert

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## More by Melanie Hoffert

> [“As a child when I visited my grandparents near the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming I felt claustrophobic. The mountains seemed to block the sky…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-hoffert/as-a-child-when-i-visited-my-grandparents-near-the-bighorn-mountains/)

Melanie Hoffert

> [“This is a difficult question for me to answer. Somehow I want to explain to them that the land is beautiful, beyond their imagination.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-hoffert/this-is-a-difficult-question-for-me-to-answer-somehow-i-want-to/)

Melanie Hoffert

> [“This history argument holds absolutely no weight with my dad. He’s not sentimental in this way, does not linger on the past. Old stuff,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-hoffert/this-history-argument-holds-absolutely-no-weight-with-my-dad-he-s-not/)

Melanie Hoffert

> [“Dad never missed a day of work, regardless of how late he had been out the night before. The intensity of Dad’s dependability, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-hoffert/dad-never-missed-a-day-of-work-regardless-of-how-late-he-had-been-out/)

Melanie Hoffert

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