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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 .......~:%
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#@%%:~.... 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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#@%%:~.... 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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