SIX YEARS

摘要

Growing up in a small rural Missouri town 50 miles west of St. Louis, he learned lifelong lessons that can't be found in a textbook or gleaned in a college classroom, lessons that can only be taught by family.It was in Washington, Mo. — population / 14,000 — where Simons and his youngersister, Jill, gained important life lessons under the watchful eyes of their parents, Ed and Roberta Simons, at the family's butcher shop, renowned for its national champion-quality smoked meats.