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¶@†††~^^^¨ ~ ~ ~ ~ ELVES LIVE IN THE LAND ~ ~ ~ ~ ¨^^^~†††@¶
¶@††^¨¨¨¨¨ ~ ~ ~ ~ BEYOND THE GREAT DAM. ~ ~ ~ ~ ¨¨¨¨¨^††@¶
##¶&@††~^¨ ~ IT WAS BUILT IN THE LATE SIXTIES. ~ ¨^~††@&¶##
##¶&@††~^¨ ~ ~ ~ THE ELVES CAME TO US THEN. ~ ~ ~ ¨^~††@&¶##
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##¶&@††~^¨ THEY WERE VERY MANIPULATIVE, AND WE ¨^~††@&¶##
###¶&@†~^¨ CAME TO TRUST THEM. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ US ¨^~†@&¶###
&&†††~~~^¨ KIDS WOULD PLAY DOWN AT THE WATER EVEN ¨^~~~†††&&
&@††††^^¨¨ THOUGH WE WERE NOT ALLOWED. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ¨¨^^††††@&
##¶&@††~^¨ ~ ~ SOMETIMES THE SLUICE WOULD CLOSE ¨^~††@&¶##
¶&&&@††~^¨ ENTIRELY, AND THE RIVER AT THE DAMS ¨^~††@&&&¶
#&&@@††~^¨ FOOT WOULD DRY UP, REVEALING THE ROCKY ¨^~††@@&&#
¶¶&@@††~^¨ WATER GARDEN THAT HAD BEEN HIDDEN ¨^~††@@&¶¶
##¶&@††~^¨ BENEATH, AND WE WOULD GO THERE. ~ ~ ~ ~ ¨^~††@&¶##
&&††~~^¨¨¨ ~ ~ ~ ~ BEFORE THE DAM OPENED AGAIN, ¨¨¨^~~††&&
##¶&@††~^¨ THERE WOULD BE A SIGNAL, BUT THE ELVES ¨^~††@&¶##
&@††^¨¨¨¨¨ WOULD MAKE US NOT HEAR IT, AND SUDDENLY ¨¨¨¨¨^††@&
#¶@@†~¨¨¨¨ WE WOULD FIND THE WATER RISING, ALREADY ¨¨¨¨~†@@¶#
&&&@@††~^¨ AT OUR KNEES. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ¨^~††@@&&&
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¶&†††^¨¨¨¨ ~ BY THEN THE ELVES WOULD BE GONE. ~ ¨¨¨¨^†††&¶
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