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.:«††$&@## WOODS (TEMPERATE CLIMATE, RAINS EVERY ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&&&@ OTHER DAY, SPRINGS AND STREAMS AND @&&&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## MYSTERIOUS IRON AND STONE ARTIFACTS, ##@&$††«:.
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.:«††$&@@@ I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING AT SIX AM. IT'S @@@&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## DARK, AND THE STARS ARE OUT, BUT THE ##@&$††«:.
....::†$$@ SUN IS ABOUT TO RISE. ITS A LONG DAY, @$$†::....
.....:«††& BEFORE IT FADES TO NIGHT AGAIN, AND &††«:.....
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.:«†$&@### IN THIS COTTAGE THERE'S A LOT OF RADIO ###@&$†«:.
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...««††&&@ PLAYERS. PEN AND PAPER, BOOKS, CAMERAS, @&&††««...
.:«††$&@## MIRRORS, PRISMS, AND VARIOUS THINGS TO ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## DO ART WITH. THE FRIDGE IS FILLED WITH ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&### DIFFERET FOODS, ALL OF THEM INTRIGUING, ###&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## SLIGHTLY WEIRD. ##@&$††«:.
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.:«††$&@## I HAVE FRIENDS - THERE'S A CAT, AND A ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## DOG (WHO IS RIDICOLOUSLY LARGE AND ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&@@@ WANTS TO BE THE BIG SPOON). I LISTEN TO @@@&$††«:.
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.:«†$&@### MYSELF, SONGS AND POETRY, AND FOUND ###@&$†«:.
.:«††$&@## SOUNDS FROM THE FOREST. THE OTHERS TELL ##@&$††«:.
.....:«†$& OF THEIR LIVES, PLAY THE GUITAR FOR ME, &$†«:.....
.:«††$&@## AND TELL TALES OF THE OLD WORLD. I ##@&$††«:.
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.:«††$&@## COMPLETELY RESET OVERNIGHT: SYNTH ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## PATCHES REMOVED, FOOD UNEATEN, WOUNDS ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## HEALED, AND WHEREVER AND WHENEVER I'D ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## FALL ASLEEP I'D ALWAYS WAKE UP FULLY ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&@## RESTED IN MY BED. SOMETIMES THERE'S ##@&$††«:.
.:«††$&### ACCIDENTS WHERE I LOSE STUFF BY ###&$††«:.
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.:«††$&@## LARGE SPRAWLING CITY, WHERE MY RADIO ##@&$††«:.
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.:«††$&### ME, THEY NEVER REMEMBER DURING THE DAY. ###&$††«:.
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