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..,~**£#£@ 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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