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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 / ,,,,,,.~†=
$=†~.,,,,, shopping centre. dad was constatly ,,,,,.~†=$
@$=†~.,,,, pointing out hot girls to me. "you see ,,,,.~†=$@
#@$=†~.,,, that black-haired thing dissapearing ,,,.~†=$@#
##@$=†~.,, behind the clothes rack? oof!" he'd ,,.~†=$@##
###@$=†~., say. he was always very creepy about ,.~†=$@###
##@$=†~.,, this, going for girls my age. ,,.~†=$@##
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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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$=†~.,,,,, following the boulevard, two floors up ,,,,,.~†=$
@$=†~.,,,, i found her crying behind two fern ,,,,.~†=$@
#@$=†~.,,, vases. she was beautiful, and as i ,,,.~†=$@#
##@$=†~.,, approached, she looked up and sniveled. ,,.~†=$@##
###@$=†~., in the nearest vase she had stuffed ,.~†=$@###
##@$=†~.,, both the shoes. ,,.~†=$@##
#@$=†~.,,, ,,,.~†=$@#
@$=†~.,,,, i told her to follow, but she didn't ,,,,.~†=$@
$=†~.,,,,, move or speak. so instead i said to ,,,,,.~†=$
=†~.,,,,,, 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 ,,,,,,.~†=
$=†~.,,,,, down on my knees, and then crawled ,,,,,.~†=$
@$=†~.,,,, closer. she laughed at me again, and ,,,,.~†=$@
#@$=†~.,,, said - ,,,.~†=$@#
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#@$=†~.,,, (here i am awakened by the morning crew) ,,,.~†=$@#
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