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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.            @#£†;-^...
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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.           £†;-^.....
....^-;†£#                                          #£†;-^....
...^-;†£#@     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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