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&.&&.&..&& 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. ..&.&&&&&&
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.&.&&&&&&& 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. &.&&.&&.&&
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...&.&...& I Stopped Doing Crime, Except When .&&.&&.&&.
..&&&&..&. Necessarry. Things Somehow Seemed Like &.&&.&&.&.
.&...&.&&. They Were Allright, Moulded In Place, &&.&&.&&&.
&&..&&&.&. And I Loathed It ------ I Missed Her .&&.&&..&.
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.&.&&&&..& Memories Of Her. Not So Much Of Me &&.&&&&&..
&&&...&.&& Either, From The Time We Were Together. .&&....&..
..&..&&&.& My Mother Said I Kept To Myself In The &.&...&&.&
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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 .&.&&..&&.
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&..&..&&&. 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. &..&&&&.&&
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....&&&.&& 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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