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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 #..#...###
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##......#. the barn was placed so you could just ..#..#...#
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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 .........#
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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 ....#..#..
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..#..#.... memories of her. not so much of me ...#.##...
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....#..#.. my mother said i kept to myself in the .#...#.##.
.....#..#. barn, or in the car. ..#....###
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.##.....#. 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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.###...... it was dark, where it previously had ....#..#..
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...###.... dozens of crashed cars, all my car, ......#..#
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