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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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