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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 ,,,######,
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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. ##########
########## ##########
########## 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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########## * * * * ##########
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########## (here i am awakened by the morning crew) ##########
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