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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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