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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  @#$%†=~...
....~=†%$#           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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