I have a friend who has a friend whose father dug ditches,
which my friend had to admit he never had.
"A hole, sure, deep and wide enough to accommodate
a substantial root system, transplant
a good-size yard-shrub maybe. But a ditch, that's
something different. A ditch takes hours,
takes a man into the ground up to his shoulders.
You don't get strong from ditchdigging,
and you don't get healthy, but like my friend
likes to say, 'One thing's certain
when you get up every morning to dig a ditch:
you know where you are. My father'd always say,
"The day I stop digging ditches'll be the day
they find me in one I was very nearly done with."'"
Lovelessxx00 Community Member 
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