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..»:=*§@## ##@§*=:»..
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..»:=*§@## ##@§*=:»..
......::=§ =:»»»»».... ....»»»»»:= §=::......
..»:=*§@@# = = #@@§*=:»..
.....::=§@ = mirage class goth gf = @§=::.....
..»:=*§@## = = ##@§*=:»..
..»:=§@### =:»»»»».... ....»»»»»:= ###@§=:»..
..»::=*§§# #§§*=::»..
......:*@@ @@*:......
..»:=*§@## 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. #@§===:»..
..»:=***§§ §§***=:»..
..»:=*§§§@ @§§§*=:»..
..»:=*§@## »»»»»... ...»»»»» ##@§*=:»..
..»:=*§@@@ @@@§*=:»..
......»=§@ @§=»......
..»:::*§§# 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... §===:»»...
..»:=*§@## ##@§*=:»..
....»==*§§ §§*==»....
..»:=*§@## »»»»»... ...»»»»» ##@§*=:»..
...»»==§@@ @@§==»»...
..»:===*§@ @§*===:»..
..»:=*§@## 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! ##@§*=:»..
..»:=*§@@@ @@@§*=:»..
..»:::***@ @***:::»..
..»:=*§@## ##@§*=:»..
..»:=*§@## ##@§*=:»..
..»:=*§@## ##@§*=:»..