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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. £@@@£*=--.
....-=*£@@ @@£*=-....
....--**@@ 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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