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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 #.##....##
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##..##.### each floor would reflect suggestive #..#.#.#.#
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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 #....##.#.
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###.#.##.# 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 #######.#.
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#..##.##.# 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 ..###.#..#
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