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Celebrating the guys that can fix anything

Amy Kirk
Jun 20, 2018
Jun 20, 2018 Updated Jan 11, 2022

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Unfortunately my column this week may not have the same profoundness, being it’s after Father’s Day and all, but I still want to talk about dads. If mothers are nurturers, then dads are fixers. The world would be in complete ruin if it weren’t for all the dads across the globe fixing and restoring all the things that make a kid’s world go around.

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Amy Kirk and her husband run a fourth-generation cow-calf

operation near Pringle, S.D. Email her at amy@amykirk.com, or visit her website at www.amykirk.com.