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,,,,..^^§#         † Mirage Class Goth Gf †         #§^^..,,,,
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,.=^†§#@##                                          ##@#§†^=.,
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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.            #§§^...,,,
,.=^†§#@##                                          ##@#§†^=.,
,.=^†§§###   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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,.=^†§#@##            =====.., ,..=====             ##@#§†^=.,
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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.           #††^^..,,,
,,,.===†##                                          ##†===.,,,
,,,,,=^†§@      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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