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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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