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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.              #@£%††=~..
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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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