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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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