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##@$%:~... Trusted Car, And Sometimes My Mothers ...~:%$@##
#@$%:~.... Barn. We Lived Just Outside Town, A ....~:%$@#
@$%:~..... Grove At The End Of A Dirt Road, And .....~:%$@
$%:~...... The Barn Was Placed So You Could Just ......~:%$
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#@$%:~.... My Car Was Black And Loud, Both The ....~:%$@#
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@$%:~..... Us. She Seemed To Cast This Veil Over .....~:%$@
$%:~...... Everything. Her Black Skirt Reached To ......~:%$
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###@$%:~.. The Blood Was Her Red Lipstick Or Her ..~:%$@###
##@$%:~... Checkered Shirt. She Was On Television. ...~:%$@##
#@$%:~.... We Did Crime, And We Made Weird ....~:%$@#
@$%:~..... Structures In The Barn, Tall Pillars Of .....~:%$@
$%:~...... Dark Wood, Ladders And Plateaus, Fires ......~:%$
%:~....... And Fairy Lights. We Would Sleep There .......~:%
$%:~...... And Drink There And She Would Go In The ......~:%$
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###@$%:~.. Away. Everything Changed... I Yearned, ..~:%$@###
##@$%:~... And The World Became Dull Around Me. ...~:%$@##
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$%:~...... And I Loathed It ------ I Missed Her ......~:%$
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$%:~...... Memories Of Her. Not So Much Of Me ......~:%$
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$%:~...... My Mother Said I Kept To Myself In The ......~:%$
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#@$%:~.... Facility. By This Time They Had Been ....~:%$@#
@$%:~..... Chasing Me For Days. I Lost Control .....~:%$@
$%:~...... Over The Car, Crashed It Into A Rock ......~:%$
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@$%:~..... And Then I Got Up, And Looked Around. .....~:%$@
#@$%:~.... It Was Dark, Where It Previously Had ....~:%$@#
##@$%:~... Been A Bright Day. Around Me Where ...~:%$@##
###@$%:~.. Dozens Of Crashed Cars, All My Car, ..~:%$@###
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$%:~...... Darkness. I Knew The Way The Sky ......~:%$
@$%:~..... Touched The Ground. This Was Her Doing! .....~:%$@
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