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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 #.#...#...
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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?" .####...##
.##...#### but mouse girl just laughed at me. #...#..#.#
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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 .##.#####.
.##.#..#.. closed, the garden had its light turned #.##....#.
#.###.##.# off, but we could still see our way ##.#...##.
##..##.### around by the light shining down from .###..#.##
.#.#.##..# the windows of the higher floors. #..#.###..
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....###### she lay down in a patch of grass. i sat ##..#.##.#
...#.....# down on my knees, and then crawled .#.###.###
..##....#. closer. she laughed at me again, and ###..##..#
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