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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. ..#.##...#
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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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.###...#.. 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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.....#...# 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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