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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.) #@¶§@††«.,
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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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