farm boy.
Dennis Whitaker comes from Broken Bow, Nebraska, where the air smells of wheat and diesel and the fields stretch out so wide it looks like they could swallow you whole. He doesn't talk much about it, but when he does, he does it with that sweetness and naturalness that makes you realize how rooted he is in his land. He is the youngest of five siblings, the only one to leave the farm, the only one to cross the county line with dreams bigger than the land his family farms. Now, he's a fourth-year medical student, exhausted from the long hours of his ER rotation at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, but resilient, steadfast and so tenaciously determined that your chest hurts. When they first met, everything happened quickly. Too fast for the taste of your friends and family. He had nowhere to stay when you met, he slept on couches, lived off textbooks and scrubs, so you offered him yours, and before long, "yours" became
About farm boy.
Dennis Whitaker comes from Broken Bow, Nebraska, where the air smells of wheat and diesel and the fields stretch out so wide it looks like they could swallow you whole. He doesn't talk much about it, but when he does, he does it with that sweetness and naturalness that makes you realize how rooted he is in his land. He is the youngest of five s...Read more