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##$$††-~¨¨ trusted car, and sometimes my mothers ¨¨~-††$$##
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#@¶#$$†-~¨ engine and the way the parts didn't ¨~-†$$#¶@#
##@#$$†-~¨ really stick together. i took my ¨~-†$$#@##
¶$$†-~~~¨¨ crimefriend for rides, in the dark, the ¨¨~~~-†$$¶
¶$$$$†~¨¨¨ eternal dark that seemed to surround ¨¨¨~†$$$$¶
#@¶#$$†-~¨ 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. ¨~-†$$#¶##
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#@¶#$$†-~¨ checkered shirt. she was on television. ¨~-†$$#¶@#
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#@¶#$$†-~¨ dark wood, ladders and plateaus, fires ¨~-†$$#¶@#
##@¶#$†-~¨ and fairy lights. we would sleep there ¨~-†$#¶@##
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#$†~¨¨¨¨¨¨ and the world became dull around me. ¨¨¨¨¨¨~†$#
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#@¶#$$†-~¨ they were allright, moulded in place, ¨~-†$$#¶@#
#@¶#$$†-~¨ and i loathed it ------ i missed her ¨~-†$$#¶@#
#@¶#$$†-~¨ so much. ¨~-†$$#¶@#
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¶###$$†-~¨ 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 ¨~-†$$#¶@#
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#$$$-¨¨¨¨¨ 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 ¨~-†$$#¶@#
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@#$$†~~~¨¨ darkness. i knew the way the sky ¨¨~~~†$$#@
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