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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 ¨:=*=&&£##
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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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