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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.            ....«††¤¶#
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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.           ....^«††¤¶
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¤*†««.....     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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