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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.                ###@§%†~-.
.-~†*%§###                                          ###§%*†~-.
...--†*§§§   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.                 @§*†~-....
...--†**§@                                          @§**†--...
.-~†*%§@##                                          ##@§%*†~-.
...---†**§            ~~~~~--. .--~~~~~             §**†---...
.-~†*%§###                                          ###§%*†~-.
.-~†*%§@##                                          ##@§%*†~-.
.-~††††*%§  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...             #@§§%*†~-.
......~*§#                                          #§*~......
....-~†%§§                                          §§%†~-....
.----††%%@            ~~~~~--. .--~~~~~             @%%††----.
...~~†%%%§                                          §%%%†~~...
.-~†*%§@##                                          ##@§%*†~-.
.....-~*§#    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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