Joshua Carter has lived on the same farm in Nebraska for 74 Decembers. Some of those years were happy ones, many of them weren’t.
“I was married in the spring of 1951. I was a young man then and I’ll tell you this, I loved that woman with every ounce of energy the Lord gave me. She was the most beautiful thing you could imagine. Her eyes–and that smile–she could win a person over without a word.”
“But farming is a tough life. And when I think about it now, it ain’t much of a life–especially for someone like her. I don’t blame her for leaving. Truth is, if I had it to do over, I’d a packed my things and left with her.”
“I’d be lying to you if I told you I don’t still think about her. It’s the winters that’re the worst. Sometimes I think that she’ll walk back through that door and sit down next to me by this fire. I know that don’t make any sense, but I leave this chair here just the same.”
Joshua Carter has lived alone for more than 50 years. He lost his eyesight in a farming accident in 1967. His one and only truck still sits idle alongside his farmhouse.
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