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##@&£%\~^¨ Sixteen Years, Together With My Dad In ¨^~\%£&@##
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##@&£%\~^¨ Pointing Out Hot Girls To Me. "You See ¨^~\%£&@##
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##@&£%\~^¨ Girl He Called A "Mouse" By Buying Her ¨^~\%£&@##
#&&&£%\~^¨ Shoes, But She Had Accepted Them Only ¨^~\%£&&
##@&£%\~^¨ To Run Away Immediately Afterward. Dad ¨^~\%£&@##
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##@&£%\~^¨ Went Looking For The Mouse. ¨^~\%£&@##
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##@&£%\~^¨ Green Marble. Throughout The House Ran ¨^~\%£&@##
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##@&£%\~^¨ Framed With Clay Vases Dark As Obsidian ¨^~\%£&@##
##@&£%\~^¨ And Taller Than A Person. In Each Vase ¨^~\%£&@##
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#@&££%\~^¨ Dimly Lit, Which Allowed The Pools That ¨^~\%££&@#
##@&£%\~^¨ Were Generously Sprinkled Throughout ¨^~\%£&@##
##@&£%\~^¨ Each Floor Would Reflect Suggestive ¨^~\%£&@##
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##@&£%\~^¨ 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 ¨^~\%£&@##
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&&&&£%\~^¨ 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 ¨^~\%£&@##
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##@&£%\~^¨ Rooftop Walking Garden, Full Of Juniper ¨^~\%£&@##
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