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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 #@#¤£†\-,.
....---††¤ 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.) #@#¤£†\-,.
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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. #@#¤£†\-,.
.,-\†££££# #££££†\-,.
......-†£¤ 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. #@#¤£†\-,.
.,-\†£¤#@# #@#¤£†\-,.
....,\††¤¤ 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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