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..-:$$$$$@ $ mirage class goth gf $ @$$$$$:-..
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..-:$%@#@# #@#@%$:-..
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..-:$%@### i used to be a goth, in my youth, doing ###@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@@ crimes mostly from or in my beloved and @@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# trusted car, and sometimes my mothers #@#@%$:-..
......-:%@ barn. we lived just outside town, a @%:-......
..-:$%@### grove at the end of a dirt road, and ###@%$:-..
..-:$%@### the barn was placed so you could just ###@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@@ make out the surrounding fields through @@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@### the trees. ###@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# #@#@%$:-..
...--::$@@ my car was black and loud, both the @@$::--...
..-:$%#@## engine and the way the parts didn't ##@#%$:-..
.-:$%@#@## really stick together. i took my ##@#@%$:-.
..-:$%@@@@ crimefriend for rides, in the dark, the @@@@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# eternal dark that seemed to surround #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# us. she seemed to cast this veil over #@#@%$:-..
......-$$@ everything. her black skirt reached to @$$-......
..-:$%@##@ her knees but then somehow also back @##@%$:-..
..-:$%@@## around, enveloping all my memories of ##@@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@@ our time together. @@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# there was blood everywhere. sometimes #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@@ the blood was her red lipstick or her @@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@##@ checkered shirt. she was on television. @##@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# we did crime, and we made weird #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@@@@ structures in the barn, tall pillars of @@@@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# dark wood, ladders and plateaus, fires #@#@%$:-..
.....-:%%# and fairy lights. we would sleep there #%%:-.....
..-:$%@#@@ and drink there and she would go in the @@#@%$:-..
.......:%@ television. @%:.......
..-:$%@### ###@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@@ and then the sun came out, and she went @@#@%$:-..
.....-:$%@ away. everything changed... i yearned, @%$:-.....
..-:$%@@## and the world became dull around me. ##@@%$:-..
..-:::$@#@ @#@$:::-..
..-:$%@#@# i stopped doing crime, except when #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@### necessarry. things somehow seemed like ###@%$:-..
..-:$@#@## they were allright, moulded in place, ##@#@$:-..
..-:$%%%%# and i loathed it ------ i missed her #%%%%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# so much. #@#@%$:-..
..-:%@#@## ##@#@%:-..
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..-:$%@#@# -----... ...----- #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# #@#@%$:-..
.......:$@ @$:.......
..-:$%#@## i searched for her, but nobody had any ##@#%$:-..
..-:$%@@@@ memories of her. not so much of me @@@@%$:-..
..-:$%@### either, from the time we were together. ###@%$:-..
.....-$@#@ my mother said i kept to myself in the @#@$-.....
..-:$%@#@# barn, or in the car. #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@@ @@#@%$:-..
..-:$$$%## 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 #@@$$--...
..-:$%@#@# wall and flew out the windshield. #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# and then i got up, and looked around. #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# it was dark, where it previously had #@#@%$:-..
......:$%# been a bright day. around me where #%$:......
.....-:%#@ dozens of crashed cars, all my car, @#%:-.....
..-:$%@### some on fire. ###@%$:-..
.....-$$@# #@$$-.....
..-:$%#@## the ground was sticky, red. ##@#%$:-..
.......-$@ @$-.......
..-:$%@#@# and then i realized that i knew this #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# darkness. i knew the way the sky #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@@ touched the ground. this was her doing! @@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# she was here! #@#@%$:-..
..-:$%@#@# #@#@%$:-..
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