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¨.~††@§###          Mouse girl Likes Shoes          ###§@††~.¨
¨.~††@§###                                          ###§@††~.¨
¨.~††@§###                †  †  †  †                ###§@††~.¨
¨¨¨¨¨¨.††§                                          §††.¨¨¨¨¨¨
¨.~††@§§## 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. ###§@††~.¨
¨.~††@§###                                          ###§@††~.¨
¨¨..~~††@# 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.        ####§@††.¨
¨¨¨~~†@§§#                                          #§§@†~~¨¨¨
¨.~††@§### 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. ###§@††~.¨
¨.~†††††§§                                          §§†††††~.¨
¨.~††@§### 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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¨¨¨¨.†@@§# †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† #§@@†.¨¨¨¨
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