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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.              ##£@%*\-..
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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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.......-\* (here i am awakened by the morning crew) *\-.......
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