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..~*%$§¶## Large Bend Like A Scooping Hand And A ##¶§$%*~..
...~*%$§¶# Decent Days Travel North From That #¶§$%*~...
....~*%$§¶ Stands Our House In The Middle Of A ¶§$%*~....
...~*%$§¶# Forgotten Apple Orchard. Our House Is #¶§$%*~...
..~*%$§¶## Built Of Dark Clay And Abandoned By A ##¶§$%*~..
.~*%$§¶### Stranger. The Window Has No Glass But ###¶§$%*~.
..~*%$§¶## Instead Steel Bars To Keep The Animals ##¶§$%*~..
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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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