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#§%=~.....  I Used To Be A Goth, In My Youth, Doing .....~=%§#
#§%«......  Crimes Mostly From Or In My Beloved And ......«%§#
@$=«~.....   Trusted Car, And Sometimes My Mothers  .....~«=$@
#§$$%««~..   Barn. We Lived Just Outside Town, A    ..~««%$$§#
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##@§$%=«~.  The Barn Was Placed So You Could Just   .~«=%$§@##
§$$=~~~~..  Make Out The Surrounding Fields Through ..~~~~=$$§
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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  .~«=%§@###
##@§$%=«~.  Dark Wood, Ladders And Plateaus, Fires  .~«=%$§@##
##@§$%=«~.  And Fairy Lights. We Would Sleep There  .~«=%$§@##
§§$$$%=«~.  And Drink There And She Would Go In The .~«=%$$$§§
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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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§§$$=««...    I Stopped Doing Crime, Except When    ...««=$$§§
§$=«~~~~..  Necessarry. Things Somehow Seemed Like  ..~~~~«=$§
##@§$%=«~.   They Were Allright, Moulded In Place,  .~«=%$§@##
##@§$%=«~.   And I Loathed It ------ I Missed Her   .~«=%$§@##
##@§$%=«~.                 So Much.                 .~«=%$§@##
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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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§§§%%«««~.  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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