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#&@=*~:¨¨¨ when  i was  in eight grade i  decided i ¨¨¨:~*=@&#
&@=*~:¨¨¨¨ was  dead.  my spirit  had left my body, ¨¨¨¨:~*=@&
@=*~:¨¨¨¨¨             never to return.             ¨¨¨¨¨:~*=@
&@=*~:¨¨¨¨                                          ¨¨¨¨:~*=@&
#&@=*~:¨¨¨ i remember sitting in my parents  car on ¨¨¨:~*=@&#
##&@=*~:¨¨ a cloudy,  watery day,  getting  a  ride ¨¨:~*=@&##
###&@=*~:¨ somewhere. it felt  like  i  had  solved ¨:~*=@&###
##&@=*~:¨¨ some  great   puzzle.  i've  solved   no ¨¨:~*=@&##
#&@=*~:¨¨¨           puzzles since then.            ¨¨¨:~*=@&#
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@=*~:¨¨¨¨¨  instead, i've been mindlessly piloting  ¨¨¨¨¨:~*=@
&@=*~:¨¨¨¨ this body around. i still  give it life, ¨¨¨¨:~*=@&
#&@=*~:¨¨¨ somehow. like a golem, and i try not  to ¨¨¨:~*=@&#
##&@=*~:¨¨ care  too  much,  but  i   do.  it's   a ¨¨:~*=@&##
###&@=*~:¨   contaminated golem, this one. purity   ¨:~*=@&###
##&@=*~:¨¨ clouded  by  my  echo. afterglow  of  my ¨¨:~*=@&##
#&@=*~:¨¨¨                  spirit.                 ¨¨¨:~*=@&#
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