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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 ##£¤@%:=^.
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.^^^^^:@¤# 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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....^=:@££ 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 ##£¤@%:=^.
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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 £££¤@%:=^.
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.^=:%@¤£## 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 ££@:=.....
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