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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.                   ¶§§††«,,,,
,.«††@§¶@#                                          #@¶§@††«.,
,.«††@§§§@ 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.) #@¶§@††«.,
,.«††@§¶@#                                          #@¶§@††«.,
,.«††@§¶@@ 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.                @§@†«.,,,,
,.«««†@§¶¶                                          ¶¶§@†«««.,
,.«††@§¶@# 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.               §@@†«.,,,,
.«††@§¶@##                                          ##@¶§@††«.
,.«††@§¶@# 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.           ¶¶@†.,,,,,
,.«††@§¶@#                                          #@¶§@††«.,
,,,,.««†@§ 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.           ##¶§@††«.,
,.«†††@§§§                                          §§§@†††«.,
,.«††@§¶@# 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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