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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. ¨¨¨¨:~^=%@
%=^~:¨¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨:~^=%
=^~:¨¨¨¨¨¨ 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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