The Overweight Woman Grows Ripe Tomatoes — Vanessa Carvo

An overweight woman from Maine decides to become a mail order bride to a farmer in California, because there are no suitors left where she lives. The widower with two children meets her at the train station and she thinks he is shocked by her weight, but he remains mostly silent for a long time. She begins to love his children but worries that she will never be able to crack the farmer's tough-seeming exterior.