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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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..#.#.#.#. / / / / .#.#.#.#.#
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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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