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#§§§£††~,. The  River  That'S  Our  River  Makes  A .,~††£§§§#
§§††,,,... Large Bend  Like A  Scooping Hand And  A ...,,,††§§
§§§††††~,. 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 ......~†£§
££†~,,.... Instead  Steel Bars To  Keep The Animals ....,,~†££
#£§§£††~,.                   Out.                   .,~††£§§£#
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##£§£††~,. Around  The  House  Is  A  Thick,  Thick .,~††£§£##
##£§£††~,. 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 .,~~~†††££
##£§£††~,. Be Done By Animals. (Father  Says This.) .,~††£§£##
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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 .,~††£§###
##£§£††~,.                With Dew.                 .,~††£§£##
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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 .....~†£§§
§£†,......               His Clothes.               ......,†£§
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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 ......,†££
#£§††††~,.            Scared Of Him Then.           .,~††††§£#
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#§§†††~~,. We  Are Then  Tasked With  Removing  Any .,~~†††§§#
#£§£†~,,,. Indoor Plant  We  See.  But They Are  So .,,,~†£§£#
£££†~..... 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 .,~††£§###
##£§£††~,.          Behind In Our Duties.           .,~††£§£##
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