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#@¶#@§†=,¨ Mean No Harm But It Is Not In Our Best ¨,=†§@#¶@#
##@¶@§†=,¨ Interest To Do So. There Is Important ¨,=†§@¶@##
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#@¶#@§†=,¨ Even The Color Of Wine. They Have Lilac ¨,=†§@#¶@#
#@¶#@§†=,¨ Flowers And In The Morning They Are Wet ¨,=†§@#¶@#
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#@¶#@§†=,¨ So That He Does Not Have To. We Tend To ¨,=†§@#¶@#
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@¶¶#@§†=,¨ To The Walls And Far From The Light. We ¨,=†§@#¶¶@
#@¶#@§†=,¨ Are Glad, For The Flowers Are Beautiful ¨,=†§@#¶@#
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#@¶#@§†=,¨ Decoration In Our House. But When ¨,=†§@#¶@#
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##¶#@§†=,¨ Beautiful! We Wait Just Until Father ¨,=†§@#¶##
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#@¶#@§†=,¨ But We Always Shoo Them Out. With Fresh ¨,=†§@#¶@#
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#@†,¨¨¨¨¨¨ House He Suspects And Resents Our ¨¨¨¨¨¨,†@#
@@¶#@§†=,¨ Inaction. But He Doesn'T Have The ¨,=†§@#¶@@
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#@¶#@§†=,¨ It Is Not Long Before He Is Still Tired ¨,=†§@#¶@#
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#@¶#@§†=,¨ Cutting To Us As Well, Untrusting That ¨,=†§@#¶@#
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@¶¶#@§†=,¨ Are Left To Care For Us And The House ¨,=†§@#¶¶@
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