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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. .......~=^
*^=~...... ......~=^*
$*^=~..... the building was enormous and mazelike. .....~=^*$
£$*^=~.... walls, floors and pillars were set in ....~=^*$£
@£$*^=~... green marble. throughout the house ran ...~=^*$£@
#@£$*^=~.. a main boulevard, wide as a street, ..~=^*$£@#
##@£$*^=~. framed with clay vases dark as obsidian .~=^*$£@##
#@£$*^=~.. and taller than a person. in each vase ..~=^*$£@#
@£$*^=~... was placed upright a leaf from a palm ...~=^*$£@
£$*^=~.... tree or giant fern. the boulevard was ....~=^*$£
$*^=~..... dimly lit, which allowed the pools that .....~=^*$
*^=~...... 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. .........~
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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 ......~=^*
$*^=~..... off, but we could still see our way .....~=^*$
£$*^=~.... around by the light shining down from ....~=^*$£
@£$*^=~... the windows of the higher floors. ...~=^*$£@
#@£$*^=~.. ..~=^*$£@#
##@£$*^=~. she lay down in a patch of grass. i sat .~=^*$£@##
#@£$*^=~.. down on my knees, and then crawled ..~=^*$£@#
@£$*^=~... closer. she laughed at me again, and ...~=^*$£@
£$*^=~.... said - ....~=^*$£
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