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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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#¶&£$†-:,, she lay down in a patch of grass. i sat ,,:-†$£&¶#
##¶&£$†-:, down on my knees, and then crawled ,:-†$£&¶##
#¶&£$†-:,, closer. she laughed at me again, and ,,:-†$£&¶#
##¶&£$†-:, said - ,:-†$£&¶##
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