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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. #&&*,,....
.,~*%@## ##@#&%*~,.
.,~*%&@#@# 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. ###@&%*~,.
.,~*%&@#@# #@#@&%*~,.
....,~%&@@ 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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.,~*%&@#@# #@#@&%*~,.
.,~*%&@#@# ~~~~~,,. .,,~~~~~ #@#@&%*~,.
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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. ##@#@&%*~,
.,~*%&@#@# #@#@&%*~,.
.,~*%&@@## 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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