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......^=§£ In This Dream I Was A Girl Of Maybe £§=^......
.^=†§@££@@ Sixteen Years, Together With My Dad In @@££@§†=^.
.^^^==†@@@ A Huge Bath House / Spa / Hotel / @@@†==^^^.
.^=†§@£@## Shopping centre. Dad Was Constatly ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Pointing Out Hot Girls To Me. "You See ##@£@§†=^.
.^=††††§££ That Black-Haired Thing Dissapearing ££§††††=^.
.^=†§@£@## Behind The Clothes Rack? Oof!" He'D ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@@@ Say. He Was Always Very Creepy About @@@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## This, Going For Girls My Age. ##@£@§†=^.
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.^=†§£@### This Night He Had Just Tried To Woo A ###@£§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Girl He Called A "Mouse" By Buying Her ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§£@### Shoes, But She Had Accepted Them Only ###@£§†=^.
.^=†§@£### To Run Away Immediately Afterward. Dad ###£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Was A Bit Bummed But Dropped It ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Quickly. I Said Goodnight To Him And ##@£@§†=^.
......=§£@ Went Looking For The Mouse. @£§=......
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.^=†§@£@## The Building Was Enormous And Mazelike. ##@£@§†=^.
.....^^†§£ Walls, Floors And Pillars Were Set In £§†^^.....
.^===†@£££ Green Marble. Throughout The House Ran £££@†===^.
.....^†§@£ A Main Boulevard, Wide As A Street, £@§†^.....
.^=†§@£@## Framed With Clay Vases Dark As Obsidian ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## And Taller Than A Person. In Each Vase ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†††§££@ Was Placed Upright A Leaf From A Palm @££§†††=^.
.^=†§@£@## Tree Or Giant Fern. The Boulevard Was ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Dimly Lit, Which Allowed The Pools That ##@£@§†=^.
...====†§£ Were Generously Sprinkled Throughout £§†====...
.^=†§@£@## Each Floor Would Reflect Suggestive ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†††§§§£ Patterns On The Marble. £§§§†††=^.
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.^=†§@£@## Following The Boulevard, Two Floors Up ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## I Found Her Crying Behind Two Fern ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@@@££ Vases. She Was Beautiful, And As I ££@@@§†=^.
..^=††@@@@ Approached, She Looked Up And Sniveled. @@@@††=^..
.^=†§@£### In The Nearest Vase She Had Stuffed ###£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Both The Shoes. ##@£@§†=^.
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.^=†§@@### I Told Her To Follow, But She Didn'T ###@@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Move Or Speak. So Instead I Said To ##@£@§†=^.
......==§£ Stay There, And Ran To Get Her A Better £§==......
.^^==§@£@# Pair Of Shoes That She Would Actually #@£@§==^^.
.^=†§@£@## Like. When I Returned, Having Spent ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## More Than I Could Really Afford, She ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§§@££@ Was Visibly Impressed. I Tried To Sound @££@§§†=^.
....^^=§§£ Cool, Saying Something Like "What Do £§§=^^....
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....^††§£# Freaky Dad, She Doesn'T Have Taste?" #£§††^....
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.^=†§@@£££ She Then Took Me By The Hand And Led Me £££@@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Out A Side Route To A Closed-Off ##@£@§†=^.
.^=†§@£@## Rooftop Walking Garden, Full Of Juniper ##@£@§†=^.
.....=§§§£ And Thuja. It Was A Late Evening, And £§§§=.....
.^=†§@@@£@ The Stars Were Glittering. Being @£@@@§†=^.
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.^=†§@@££# Off, But We Could Still See Our Way #££@@§†=^.
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.^=†§@£@## The Windows Of The Higher Floors. ##@£@§†=^.
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.^=†§@£@## She Lay Down In A Patch Of Grass. I Sat ##@£@§†=^.
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