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Urban spirit that I was, I had no more aptitude as a farmer's daughter than my father had as a farmer. (From ACT)

What does the structure "urban spirit that I was" mean? I don't think it is inversion sentence.

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The construction X that Y was in such contexts is a rather "literary" way of saying Y was [an] X. It's always followed by a "related" assertion, which in some way naturally follows from the fact of Y being an X - usually, because Y is an X, [some related assertion]...

Urban spirit that I was, I had no more aptitude as a farmer's daughter than my father had as a farmer.
...could be paraphrased as...
Being a city-dweller by nature, I wasn't much of a farmer's daughter, just as my father wasn't much of a farmer.


Alternatively,...

I was an Urban spirit, so / thus / therefore I had no more aptitude as a farmer's daughter than my father had as a farmer.

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