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#£¤£=^-:,, Decent Days Travel North From That ,,:-^=£¤£#
£¤£=^-:,,, Stands Our House In The Middle Of A ,,,:-^=£¤£
¤£=^-:,,,, Forgotten Apple Orchard. Our House Is ,,,,:-^=£¤
£¤£=^-:,,, Built Of Dark Clay And Abandoned By A ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, Stranger. The Window Has No Glass But ,,:-^=£¤£#
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£¤£=^-:,,, Brush Of Ferns And Bushes. There Live ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, The Animals That We Fight To Keep Away, ,,:-^=£¤£#
##£¤£=^-:, For They Speak To Us To Join Them In ,:-^=£¤£##
#£¤£=^-:,, The Luscious Caves Below Ground. They ,,:-^=£¤£#
£¤£=^-:,,, Mean No Harm But It Is Not In Our Best ,,,:-^=£¤£
¤£=^-:,,,, Interest To Do So. There Is Important ,,,,:-^=£¤
£¤£=^-:,,, Work That Needs To Be Done, And It Cant ,,,:-^=£¤£
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#£¤£=^-:,, Every Morning Our Father Clears The ,,:-^=£¤£#
£¤£=^-:,,, Ferns And Uproots The Bushes Only For ,,,:-^=£¤£
¤£=^-:,,,, Them To Grow Back Each Night. Their ,,,,:-^=£¤
£¤£=^-:,,, Leaves Are Teal, White And Yellow, Some ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, Even The Color Of Wine. They Have Lilac ,,:-^=£¤£#
##£¤£=^-:, Flowers And In The Morning They Are Wet ,:-^=£¤£##
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¤£=^-:,,,, Father Is Away During The Day Doing ,,,,:-^=£¤
£¤£=^-:,,, Important Things Elsewhere. He Is Weary ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, When He Returns Home, Each Day More So ,,:-^=£¤£#
##£¤£=^-:, Than The Next. We Learn To Cook For Him ,:-^=£¤£##
#£¤£=^-:,, So That He Does Not Have To. We Tend To ,,:-^=£¤£#
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£¤£=^-:,,, Suddenly The Dense Bushwork Is Mirrored ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, Inside. Stems And Leaves Appear Close ,,:-^=£¤£#
##£¤£=^-:, To The Walls And Far From The Light. We ,:-^=£¤£##
#£¤£=^-:,, Are Glad, For The Flowers Are Beautiful ,,:-^=£¤£#
£¤£=^-:,,, And Smell Good, And There Is Little ,,,:-^=£¤£
¤£=^-:,,,, Decoration In Our House. But When ,,,,:-^=£¤
£¤£=^-:,,, Father Comes Home He Is Angry And Cuts ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, Them All Down In A Frenzy. We Are ,,:-^=£¤£#
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£¤£=^-:,,, We Are Then Tasked With Removing Any ,,,:-^=£¤£
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£¤£=^-:,,, Beautiful! We Wait Just Until Father ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, Comes Home And Until Then We Enjoy ,,:-^=£¤£#
##£¤£=^-:, Them. Sometimes An Animal Will Sneak In ,:-^=£¤£##
#£¤£=^-:,, But We Always Shoo Them Out. With Fresh ,,:-^=£¤£#
£¤£=^-:,,, Cut Flowers Thrown Right Outside The ,,,:-^=£¤£
¤£=^-:,,,, House He Suspects And Resents Our ,,,,:-^=£¤
£¤£=^-:,,, Inaction. But He Doesn'T Have The ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, Energy To Scold Us. He Weakens Quickly. ,,:-^=£¤£#
##£¤£=^-:, It Is Not Long Before He Is Still Tired ,:-^=£¤£##
#£¤£=^-:,, Even In The Morning And Must ,,:-^=£¤£#
£¤£=^-:,,, Reluctantly Leave The Outdoor Weed ,,,:-^=£¤£
¤£=^-:,,,, Cutting To Us As Well, Untrusting That ,,,,:-^=£¤
£¤£=^-:,,, We Will Carry It Out. ,,,:-^=£¤£
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##£¤£=^-:, Now He Leaves As Soon As He'S Awake And ,:-^=£¤£##
#£¤£=^-:,, Falls Asleep As Soon As He Returns. We ,,:-^=£¤£#
£¤£=^-:,,, Are Left To Care For Us And The House ,,,:-^=£¤£
¤£=^-:,,,, And The Orchard. But It Is Hard And We ,,,,:-^=£¤
£¤£=^-:,,, Are Distracted. We Are Not As ,,,:-^=£¤£
#£¤£=^-:,, Persistent As Father And Quickly Fall ,,:-^=£¤£#
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