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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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,-~^†£¤@##             ~~~~~--, ,--~~~~~            ##@¤£†^~-,
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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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