I’m Joanna, a city girl who found herself spending her first night at her husband’s family farm in rural Iowa. Thrown into a world completely foreign to me, I wrestled with my mother-in-law’s cold stares, my own sense of not belonging, and the yawning gap between urban and rural life. Through painful confrontations and moments of quiet revelation, I learned what it means to fight for acceptance—and questioned whether the lines dividing us are ever truly erased.