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...~«/*£§@  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.                §£*/«~....
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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.   #@§£*/«~..
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....~«/*£§    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.    §£*/«~....
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....~«/*£§  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.        §£*/«~....
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....~«/*£§   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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