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&$*==,.... mouse girl likes shoes ....,==*$&
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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. ..........
,......... .........,
=,........ 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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$*==,..... = = = = .....,==*$
&$*==,.... ....,==*$&
#&$*==,... following the boulevard, two floors up ...,==*$&#
##&$*==,.. i found her crying behind two fern ..,==*$&##
###&$*==,. vases. she was beautiful, and as i .,==*$&###
##&$*==,.. approached, she looked up and sniveled. ..,==*$&##
#&$*==,... in the nearest vase she had stuffed ...,==*$&#
&$*==,.... both the shoes. ....,==*$&
$*==,..... .....,==*$
*==,...... 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 .......,==
*==,...... you think, just because a girl has a ......,==*
$*==,..... freaky dad, she doesn't have taste?" .....,==*$
&$*==,.... but mouse girl just laughed at me. ....,==*$&
#&$*==,... ...,==*$&#
##&$*==,.. she then took me by the hand and led me ..,==*$&##
###&$*==,. out a side route to a closed-off .,==*$&###
##&$*==,.. rooftop walking garden, full of juniper ..,==*$&##
#&$*==,... and thuja. it was a late evening, and ...,==*$&#
&$*==,.... the stars were glittering. being ....,==*$&
$*==,..... closed, the garden had its light turned .....,==*$
*==,...... off, but we could still see our way ......,==*
==,....... around by the light shining down from .......,==
=,........ the windows of the higher floors. ........,=
,......... .........,
.......... she lay down in a patch of grass. i sat ..........
,......... down on my knees, and then crawled .........,
=,........ closer. she laughed at me again, and ........,=
==,....... said - .......,==
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&$*==,.... ....,==*$&
#&$*==,... (here i am awakened by the morning crew) ...,==*$&#
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