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###§††=~¨¨ I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING AT SIX AM. IT'S ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ DARK, AND THE STARS ARE OUT, BUT THE ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ SUN IS ABOUT TO RISE. ITS A LONG DAY, ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ BEFORE IT FADES TO NIGHT AGAIN, AND ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ THEN IT STAYS SO UNTIL I FALL ASLEEP. ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ IT DOESN'T RISE UNLESS I'VE HAD MY ¨~=††§####
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###§††=~¨¨ IN THIS COTTAGE THERE'S A LOT OF RADIO ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ EQUIPMENT, SOUND STUFF, SYNTHS, TAPE ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ PLAYERS. PEN AND PAPER, BOOKS, CAMERAS, ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ MIRRORS, PRISMS, AND VARIOUS THINGS TO ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ DO ART WITH. THE FRIDGE IS FILLED WITH ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ DIFFERET FOODS, ALL OF THEM INTRIGUING, ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ SLIGHTLY WEIRD. ¨¨~=††§###
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###§††=~¨¨ I HAVE FRIENDS - THERE'S A CAT, AND A ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ DOG (WHO IS RIDICOLOUSLY LARGE AND ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ WANTS TO BE THE BIG SPOON). I LISTEN TO ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ THE SHORTWAVE RADIO, AND TRANSMIT A BIT ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ MYSELF, SONGS AND POETRY, AND FOUND ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ SOUNDS FROM THE FOREST. THE OTHERS TELL ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ OF THEIR LIVES, PLAY THE GUITAR FOR ME, ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ AND TELL TALES OF THE OLD WORLD. I ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ CONSIDER THEM FRIENDS AS WELL. ¨¨~=††§###
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###§††=~¨¨ MOST IMPORTANTLY, THERE'S A TWO SQUARE ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ METER AREA ON THE FLOOR WHERE I CAN ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ "SAVE" THINGS. WHATEVER I PUT IN HERE ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THE NIGHTLY ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ RESET. EVERYTHING ELSE, HOWEVER, IS ¨¨~=††§###
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###§††=~¨¨ PATCHES REMOVED, FOOD UNEATEN, WOUNDS ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ HEALED, AND WHEREVER AND WHENEVER I'D ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ FALL ASLEEP I'D ALWAYS WAKE UP FULLY ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ RESTED IN MY BED. SOMETIMES THERE'S ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ ACCIDENTS WHERE I LOSE STUFF BY ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ FORGETTING TO PUT THEM IN THE SQUARE. ¨~=††§####
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####§††=~¨ AT NIGHT, I HAVE DEMI-LUCID DREAMS ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ WHERE THE SPIRITS OF THE FOREST AROUND ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ THE COTTAGE TRIES TO COMMUNICATE. HERE, ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ IT'S NOT ENDLESS BUT CONNECTED TO A ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ LARGE SPRAWLING CITY, WHERE MY RADIO ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ FRIENDS LIVE. WE GO EXPLORING TOGETHER ¨¨~=††§###
####§††=~¨ - THINGS ARE DEEP AND DARK - BUT UNLIKE ¨~=††§####
###§††=~¨¨ ME, THEY NEVER REMEMBER DURING THE DAY. ¨¨~=††§###
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