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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. £§%=:-,...
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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 ##£§%=:-,.
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