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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 @£¤&*=-¨¨¨
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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. @£¤&*=-¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨-=*&¤£ £¤&*=-¨¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨¨-=*&¤ 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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