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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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