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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 ##^^/.....
..=/^$#### His Clothes. ####$^/=..
..=/^$#£## ##£#$^/=..
..=/^$#££# Suddenly The Dense Bushwork Is Mirrored #££#$^/=..
.....=^^#£ 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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