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§^«¨¨¨¨¨¨¨  I Used To Be A Goth, In My Youth, Doing ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨«^§
§^«««,,¨¨¨ Crimes Mostly From Or In My Beloved And  ¨¨¨,,«««^§
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#§$=«¨¨¨¨¨    Barn. We Lived Just Outside Town, A   ¨¨¨¨¨«=$§#
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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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##@§$^=«,¨   There Was Blood Everywhere. Sometimes  ¨,«=^$§@##
##@§$^=«,¨   The Blood Was Her Red Lipstick Or Her  ¨,«=^$§@##
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###§$^=«,¨     We Did Crime, And We Made Weird      ¨,«=^$§###
##@§$^=«,¨  Structures In The Barn, Tall Pillars Of ¨,«=^$§@##
##@§$^=«,¨  Dark Wood, Ladders And Plateaus, Fires  ¨,«=^$§@##
###@$^=«,¨  And Fairy Lights. We Would Sleep There  ¨,«=^$@###
@@§^===«,¨  And Drink There And She Would Go In The ¨,«===^§@@
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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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##@§$^=«,¨    I Stopped Doing Crime, Except When    ¨,«=^$§@##
#§$===«,,¨  Necessarry. Things Somehow Seemed Like  ¨,,«===$§#
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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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#§^=««¨¨¨¨    Flashing By On The Tv In The Barn.    ¨¨¨¨««=^§#
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##@§$^=«,¨ Moment. I Remembered Her Laugh And Knew  ¨,«=^$§@##
§$=««¨¨¨¨¨   We Had Done Crimes Together, That It   ¨¨¨¨¨««=$§
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##@§$^=«,¨   While Ramming The Fence To A Military  ¨,«=^$§@##
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#§§^^^=«,¨   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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##@§$^=«,¨  And Then I Got Up, And Looked Around.   ¨,«=^$§@##
##@§$^=«,¨   It Was Dark, Where It Previously Had   ¨,«=^$§@##
#@$=,¨¨¨¨¨    Been A Bright Day. Around Me Where    ¨¨¨¨¨,=$@#
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##@§$^=«,¨              Some On Fire.               ¨,«=^$§@##
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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! ¨¨¨¨¨,,«^§
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