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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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