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In the afternoon; as I leave for the garden and water the trees and plants which circumvent this house, I abide and forbear the remarks that grow from the neighbouring buildings. Moreover, I ask myself on a moral basis and for repeated times how to ignore their insignificant annoying deeds; nuisances that border the legitimate norms and cause extreme pressure as they move and accumulate.

While her odours pervade this proximate and invasive air, his toys multiply; and they convey a depleting problem which halts a lasting cure. Though the people in this country invent and copy communicative strategies that weary an expert recluse, they deny to learn respect and sacrifice; and they seek ways to justify their
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