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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 ¨,-;*%####
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###¤%*;-,¨ 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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###¤%*;-,¨ 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 ¨,-;*%¤¤¤¤
###¤%*;-,¨ 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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