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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.                #@¤£†=~:..
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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.           ~:........
.......:~=                                          =~:.......
......:~=†      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.        †=~:......
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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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