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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 ,#,#,,,#,,
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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 ,,#,####,#
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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 ,#,##,#,,#
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,#,,#,##,# 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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