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&£**«~.... 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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