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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 ¤§§~,,....
.,~==§%%¤¤ you think, just because a girl has a ¤¤%%§==~,.
....,~==§¤ 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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.,~=§%¤£## (here i am awakened by the morning crew) ##£¤%§=~,.
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