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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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###¤%$*--. there was blood everywhere. sometimes .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. the blood was her red lipstick or her ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... checkered shirt. she was on television. ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. we did crime, and we made weird ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. structures in the barn, tall pillars of .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. dark wood, ladders and plateaus, fires ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... and fairy lights. we would sleep there ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. and drink there and she would go in the ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. television. .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... and then the sun came out, and she went ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. away. everything changed... i yearned, ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. and the world became dull around me. .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... i stopped doing crime, except when ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. necessarry. things somehow seemed like ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. they were allright, moulded in place, .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. and i loathed it ------ i missed her ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... so much. ...--*$%¤#
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###¤%$*--. i searched for her, but nobody had any .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. memories of her. not so much of me ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... either, from the time we were together. ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. my mother said i kept to myself in the ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. barn, or in the car. .--*$%¤###
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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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##¤%$*--.. i died by getting shot in the head ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... while ramming the fence to a military ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. facility. by this time they had been ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. chasing me for days. i lost control .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. over the car, crashed it into a rock ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... wall and flew out the windshield. ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. and then i got up, and looked around. .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. it was dark, where it previously had ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... been a bright day. around me where ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. dozens of crashed cars, all my car, ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. some on fire. .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... the ground was sticky, red. ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. ..--*$%¤##
###¤%$*--. and then i realized that i knew this .--*$%¤###
##¤%$*--.. darkness. i knew the way the sky ..--*$%¤##
#¤%$*--... touched the ground. this was her doing! ...--*$%¤#
##¤%$*--.. she was here! ..--*$%¤##
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