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###£*^/«~.  The Barn Was Placed So You Could Just   .~«/^*£###
###£*^/«~. Make Out The Surrounding Fields Through  .~«/^*£###
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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  .~«/^*£###
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#£*^««....   Her Knees But Then Somehow Also Back   ....««^*£#
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###£*^/«~.            Our Time Together.            .~«/^*£###
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###£*^/«~.  There Was Blood Everywhere. Sometimes   .~«/^*£###
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###£*^/«~.  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  .~«/^*£###
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£^«.......   And The World Became Dull Around Me.   .......«^£
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###£*^/«~.  Necessarry. Things Somehow Seemed Like  .~«/^*£###
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#***///«~.   And I Loathed It ------ I Missed Her   .~«///***#
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###£*^/«~.    Memories Of Her. Not So Much Of Me    .~«/^*£###
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####*^/«~.  My Mother Said I Kept To Myself In The  .~«/^*####
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###£*^/«~.     Everything Was Black Then, For A     .~«/^*£###
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###£*^/«~.  While Ramming The Fence To A Military   .~«/^*£###
##££*^/«~.   Facility. By This Time They Had Been   .~«/^*££##
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###£*^/«~.   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.   ......«/^£
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#*//~~~~..   Dozens Of Crashed Cars, All My Car,    ..~~~~//*#
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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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