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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  ¤¤*^^««...
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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   ##@¤£*^«~.
.~«^*£¤@##                 So Much.                 ##@¤£*^«~.
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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  ¤£^~......
.~«^*£¤@##           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.    ¤££^~.....
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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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