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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 #¤%%†-:¨¨¨
¨¨¨¨:-†%%¤ Behind In Our Duties. ¤%%†-:¨¨¨¨
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