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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. #%§=~:....
.....:~=§% %§=~:.....
......:~=§ 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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.....:~=§% ~~~~~::. .::~~~~~ %§=~:.....
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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. #¶#%§=~:..
...:~=§%#¶ ¶#%§=~:...
....:~=§%# 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. #¶#%§=~:..
.:~=§%#¶## ##¶#%§=~:.
..:~=§%#¶# 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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