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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. ,,,.=\%£§@
#@§£%\=.,, ,,.=\%£§@#
##@§£%\=., 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. ,.=\%£§@##
#@§£%\=.,, ,,.=\%£§@#
@§£%\=.,,, 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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