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The Empty House cried “Let me be your home, live in me.I promise protective love”.
At each rejection plants offered comfort
while her sad windows sank behind
sagging thatched eaves and her wattle
walls and desperate in dampness.
Then, the family arrived to brave her creaks
and mask her antiquity with laughter and
joy.
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Orla is a 4th grader at Dolores Huerta Elementary in San Francisco. She lives in an old house. She enjoys playing soccer, drawing and playing with her dog, Alma.
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