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......^«^*         * Mirage Class Goth Gf *         *^«^......
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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.                «^........
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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.            @&%*^«^...
....^«^*%&                                          &%*^«^....
.....^«^*%   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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.......^«^             «««««^^. .^^«««««            ^«^.......
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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.               ^.........
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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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