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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. .....,=:%%
£%%:=,.... ....,=:%%£
@£%%:=,... 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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