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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. #@#¤§%†~..
..~†%§¤#@# #@#¤§%†~..
......†§¤@ 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. #¤¤§§%†~..
..~†§¤#@## ##@#¤§†~..
..~†%§¤¤¤# 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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