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.......... i used to be a goth, in my youth, doing ..........
.......... crimes mostly from or in my beloved and ..........
.........- trusted car, and sometimes my mothers -.........
........-- barn. we lived just outside town, a --........
.......--^ grove at the end of a dirt road, and ^--.......
......--^% the barn was placed so you could just %^--......
.....--^%£ make out the surrounding fields through £%^--.....
....--^%££ the trees. ££%^--....
...--^%££# #££%^--...
..--^%££## my car was black and loud, both the ##££%^--..
.--^%££### engine and the way the parts didn't ###££%^--.
..--^%££## really stick together. i took my ##££%^--..
...--^%££# crimefriend for rides, in the dark, the #££%^--...
....--^%££ eternal dark that seemed to surround ££%^--....
.....--^%£ us. she seemed to cast this veil over £%^--.....
......--^% everything. her black skirt reached to %^--......
.......--^ her knees but then somehow also back ^--.......
........-- around, enveloping all my memories of --........
.........- our time together. -.........
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.......... there was blood everywhere. sometimes ..........
.......... the blood was her red lipstick or her ..........
.........- checkered shirt. she was on television. -.........
........-- we did crime, and we made weird --........
.......--^ structures in the barn, tall pillars of ^--.......
......--^% dark wood, ladders and plateaus, fires %^--......
.....--^%£ and fairy lights. we would sleep there £%^--.....
....--^%££ and drink there and she would go in the ££%^--....
...--^%££# television. #££%^--...
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.--^%££### and then the sun came out, and she went ###££%^--.
..--^%££## away. everything changed... i yearned, ##££%^--..
...--^%££# and the world became dull around me. #££%^--...
....--^%££ ££%^--....
.....--^%£ i stopped doing crime, except when £%^--.....
......--^% necessarry. things somehow seemed like %^--......
.......--^ they were allright, moulded in place, ^--.......
........-- and i loathed it ------ i missed her --........
.........- so much. -.........
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.......--^ i searched for her, but nobody had any ^--.......
......--^% memories of her. not so much of me %^--......
.....--^%£ either, from the time we were together. £%^--.....
....--^%££ my mother said i kept to myself in the ££%^--....
...--^%££# barn, or in the car. #££%^--...
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.--^%££### sometimes i could still see her ###££%^--.
..--^%££## flashing by on the tv in the barn. ##££%^--..
...--^%££# everything was black then, for a #££%^--...
....--^%££ moment. i remembered her laugh and knew ££%^--....
.....--^%£ we had done crimes together, that it £%^--.....
......--^% had been real... %^--......
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.......... i died by getting shot in the head ..........
.........- while ramming the fence to a military -.........
........-- facility. by this time they had been --........
.......--^ chasing me for days. i lost control ^--.......
......--^% over the car, crashed it into a rock %^--......
.....--^%£ wall and flew out the windshield. £%^--.....
....--^%££ ££%^--....
...--^%££# and then i got up, and looked around. #££%^--...
..--^%££## it was dark, where it previously had ##££%^--..
.--^%££### been a bright day. around me where ###££%^--.
..--^%££## dozens of crashed cars, all my car, ##££%^--..
...--^%££# some on fire. #££%^--...
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.....--^%£ the ground was sticky, red. £%^--.....
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.......--^ and then i realized that i knew this ^--.......
........-- darkness. i knew the way the sky --........
.........- touched the ground. this was her doing! -.........
.......... she was here! ..........
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