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,.«††%§§@@ †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† @@§§%††«.,
,,.«††††%@                                          @%††††«.,,
,.«††%§@@#          MOUSE GIRL LIKES SHOES          #@@§%††«.,
,.«†††%§@@                                          @@§%†††«.,
,.«††%§@@#                †  †  †  †                #@@§%††«.,
,..««««†%@                                          @%†««««..,
,,,,««††%§ 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.       ##@§%††«.,
,.«††%§@@@                                          @@@§%††«.,
,.«††%§@@# 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.          @@%††«.,,,
,.«††%§@@#                                          #@@§%††«.,
,,,,,.†%@@                †  †  †  †                @@%†.,,,,,
,.«††%§@@#                                          #@@§%††«.,
,.«††%§@@# 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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