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..-*†@@#@# †*-----.... ....-----*† #@#@@†*-..
..-*†@@#@# † † #@#@@†*-..
.......-†@ † mirage class goth gf † @†-.......
..-*†@@#@# † † #@#@@†*-..
..-*†@@#@# †*-----.... ....-----*† #@#@@†*-..
....***††@ @††***....
..-*†@#@## ##@#@†*-..
..-*†@#@## 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. #@#@@†*-..
..-*†@@### ###@@†*-..
..-*††††@@ @@††††*-..
.....**@@@ -----... ...----- @@@**.....
......-*†@ @†*-......
..-*†@@@#@ @#@@@†*-..
..-*†@@#@@ 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... ##@#@†*-..
....***†@@ @@†***....
..-*†@@#@# #@#@@†*-..
.......*†@ -----... ...----- @†*.......
..-*†@@@@# #@@@@†*-..
.....-†@@@ @@@†-.....
..-*†@@@@# 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. #@#@@†*-..
......-†@# #@†-......
..-***†@@@ 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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..-*†@@#@# #@#@@†*-..
..-*†@#@## ##@#@†*-..
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