“My Father Said You Needed A Wife,” She Whispered… And I Said, “He Was Right”

My name is Matthew Vale, 34 years old, living alone on a small farm outside Wheatland, Oregon. It isn’t much by most people’s standards—just a modest stretch of wheat, a few rows of vegetables, a chicken coop, two dairy cows, an old red barn, and the two-story wooden house my parents left behind. But it’s enough to keep a man busy from dawn until the continue reading …