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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 #@£¤$\«~..
.~«\$¤£@## We Will Carry It Out. ##@£¤$\«~.
..~«\$¤£@# #@£¤$\«~..
...~«\$¤£@ Now He Leaves As Soon As He'S Awake And @£¤$\«~...
..~«\$¤£@# 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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