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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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...:=^^^## Important Things Elsewhere. He Is Weary ##^^^=:...
.:=†^£#### When He Returns Home, Each Day More So ####£^†=:.
.:=†^£#### Than The Next. We Learn To Cook For Him ####£^†=:.
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...:=†^### 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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.:=†^£#### Indoor Plant We See. But They Are So ####£^†=:.
....=^^£## Beautiful! We Wait Just Until Father ##£^^=....
....==†££# Comes Home And Until Then We Enjoy #££†==....
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.:=†^£#### 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 ####£^†=:.
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.:=†^£#### Falls Asleep As Soon As He Returns. We ####£^†=:.
.:=†^£#### Are Left To Care For Us And The House ####£^†=:.
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.:=†^£#### Are Distracted. We Are Not As ####£^†=:.
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