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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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