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$=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨ Decent Days Travel North From That ¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=$
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-:¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Forgotten Apple Orchard. Our House Is ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨:-
=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Built Of Dark Clay And Abandoned By A ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=
$=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨ Stranger. The Window Has No Glass But ¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=$
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##§$$=-:¨¨ The Animals That We Fight To Keep Away, ¨¨:-=$$§##
#§$$=-:¨¨¨ For They Speak To Us To Join Them In ¨¨¨:-=$$§#
§$$=-:¨¨¨¨ The Luscious Caves Below Ground. They ¨¨¨¨:-=$$§
$$=-:¨¨¨¨¨ Mean No Harm But It Is Not In Our Best ¨¨¨¨¨:-=$$
$=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨ Interest To Do So. There Is Important ¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=$
=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Work That Needs To Be Done, And It Cant ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=
-:¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Be Done By Animals. (Father Says This.) ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨:-
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§$$=-:¨¨¨¨ Them To Grow Back Each Night. Their ¨¨¨¨:-=$$§
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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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#§$$=-:¨¨¨ To The Walls And Far From The Light. We ¨¨¨:-=$$§#
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###§$$=-:¨ And Smell Good, And There Is Little ¨:-=$$§###
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§$$=-:¨¨¨¨ Them All Down In A Frenzy. We Are ¨¨¨¨:-=$$§
$$=-:¨¨¨¨¨ Scared Of Him Then. ¨¨¨¨¨:-=$$
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=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ We Are Then Tasked With Removing Any ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=
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=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Beautiful! We Wait Just Until Father ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=
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§$$=-:¨¨¨¨ But We Always Shoo Them Out. With Fresh ¨¨¨¨:-=$$§
#§$$=-:¨¨¨ Cut Flowers Thrown Right Outside The ¨¨¨:-=$$§#
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###§$$=-:¨ Inaction. But He Doesn'T Have The ¨:-=$$§###
##§$$=-:¨¨ Energy To Scold Us. He Weakens Quickly. ¨¨:-=$$§##
#§$$=-:¨¨¨ It Is Not Long Before He Is Still Tired ¨¨¨:-=$$§#
§$$=-:¨¨¨¨ Even In The Morning And Must ¨¨¨¨:-=$$§
$$=-:¨¨¨¨¨ Reluctantly Leave The Outdoor Weed ¨¨¨¨¨:-=$$
$=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨ Cutting To Us As Well, Untrusting That ¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=$
=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ We Will Carry It Out. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=
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$=-:¨¨¨¨¨¨ Falls Asleep As Soon As He Returns. We ¨¨¨¨¨¨:-=$
$$=-:¨¨¨¨¨ Are Left To Care For Us And The House ¨¨¨¨¨:-=$$
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