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#¤¤¤@%*=,¨ 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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##£¤@%*=,¨ Brush Of Ferns And Bushes. There Live ¨,=*%@¤£##
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£¤%%%*,,¨¨ 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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##£¤@%*=,¨ 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 ¨,=*%@¤¤££
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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 ¨¨¨,*%@¤£#
##£¤@%*=,¨ So That He Does Not Have To. We Tend To ¨,=*%@¤£##
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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 ¨,=*%@¤£##
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###£@%*=,¨ 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 ¨¨¨¨¨¨,*%¤
#¤%===,¨¨¨ 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 ¨,=*%%@@¤¤
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