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########## The Basement Is A Man-Made Subterranean #........#
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##..#....# A Small Or Rural Basement Is A Cellar. ..########
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...###.... Is Nevertheless A Way To Bring A Cave #####.....
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...###.... Structure, It'S Just That All Parts .##.......
##..#..### Might Not Be Physically Connected. ....######
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########## To Draw From The Earth Around It, Push ##########
########## Above Ground, Laundered. ##########
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########## A Cellar Is A More Senseful Affair, ##########
########## Less Intense... Made To Store Things ##########
########## (Food Or Brews, Tools) In A Colder ##########
########## Environment. Perhaps To Grow Mushrooms. ##########
########## Perhaps To Bury Corrupt Creatures (Not ##########
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