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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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¶£$=*~,¨¨¨ We Are Then Tasked With Removing Any ¨¨¨,~*=$£¶
#¶£$=*~,¨¨ Indoor Plant We See. But They Are So ¨¨,~*=$£¶#
##¶£$=*~,¨ Beautiful! We Wait Just Until Father ¨,~*=$£¶##
#¶£$=*~,¨¨ Comes Home And Until Then We Enjoy ¨¨,~*=$£¶#
¶£$=*~,¨¨¨ Them. Sometimes An Animal Will Sneak In ¨¨¨,~*=$£¶
#¶£$=*~,¨¨ But We Always Shoo Them Out. With Fresh ¨¨,~*=$£¶#
##¶£$=*~,¨ Cut Flowers Thrown Right Outside The ¨,~*=$£¶##
#¶£$=*~,¨¨ House He Suspects And Resents Our ¨¨,~*=$£¶#
¶£$=*~,¨¨¨ Inaction. But He Doesn'T Have The ¨¨¨,~*=$£¶
#¶£$=*~,¨¨ Energy To Scold Us. He Weakens Quickly. ¨¨,~*=$£¶#
##¶£$=*~,¨ It Is Not Long Before He Is Still Tired ¨,~*=$£¶##
#¶£$=*~,¨¨ Even In The Morning And Must ¨¨,~*=$£¶#
¶£$=*~,¨¨¨ Reluctantly Leave The Outdoor Weed ¨¨¨,~*=$£¶
#¶£$=*~,¨¨ Cutting To Us As Well, Untrusting That ¨¨,~*=$£¶#
##¶£$=*~,¨ We Will Carry It Out. ¨,~*=$£¶##
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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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