Sentence 1: Alan had to leave his farm to help his aging parents in the city. 
 Sentence 3: After six years his parents were stable, and he finally returned home 
 Sentence 4:  His cornfields had all lain fallow for over half a decade 
 Sentence 5:  But the rest had made them fertile, and that year his corn grew tall! 
 Given Sentence 2: He worried he would never get back home to the land he loved.