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,,,,,,,,,«          Mouse girl Likes Shoes          «,,,,,,,,,
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,,,,,,,«††                †  †  †  †                ††«,,,,,,,
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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.              «,,,,,,,,,
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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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,,,,,,«††§ (Here I Am Awakened By The Morning Crew) §††«,,,,,,
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