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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.               .....=††%§
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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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