00:00Harvest season had just begun in a quiet farming valley in Iowa.
00:04Combines moved slowly through golden cornfields, and grain trucks lined up outside the small-town elevator before sunrise.
00:12Just outside town, a small farm equipment auction was drawing its usual crowd.
00:18Farmers gathered around old machines, looking for cheap parts or something they could still use.
00:23Near the back of the lot sat an old grain tractor.
00:27Faded paint.
00:28Flat tires.
00:30Dust covering every surface.
00:33Most people walked past it without even slowing down.
00:36The local John Deere dealer stood nearby, laughing with a few farmers.
00:41That thing, he said, pointing at the tractor.
00:45It's worth more is scrap than running.
00:47A few men chuckled.
00:49That's when a quiet farmer stepped forward.
00:52Ethan Miller.
00:54He didn't laugh.
00:56He didn't argue.
00:57He just walked around the tractor slowly, then stopped at the engine panel and looked inside a little longer than
01:03anyone else had.
01:05A few minutes later, he made an offer.
01:08$600.
01:10The dealer laughed again.
01:12But Ethan just paid and took the tractor home.
01:16Most people forgot about that moment by the next morning.
01:19But what no one realized was that this wasn't just an old tractor.
01:24In part two, you'll see what Ethan noticed that no one else did.
01:29Follow the page, or you might miss what happens next.
01:32The dice
01:32The dice
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