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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  ##@§%%*=:.
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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     ##@§%%*=:.
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