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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. ¤¤%%/:....
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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. ¤£/~::....
:~/%£¤@@## ##@@¤£%/~:
...://£¤@@ 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. @¤¤%~~....
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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. ##@@¤£/~:.
.:~/%£¤@@# #@@¤£%/~:.
.:~/%£¤@@# 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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