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,.-*=*#@## =*-----..., ,...-----*= ##@#*=*-.,
,,,.--***# = = #***--.,,,
,.-=*#@### = mirage class goth gf = ###@#*=-.,
,,,,,.-==# = = #==-.,,,,,
,.-*=*#@## =*-----..., ,...-----*= ##@#*=*-.,
,,,,.-***# #***-.,,,,
,.-*=**##@ @##**=*-.,
,.-**#@### 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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