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.###...### my car was black and loud, both the ....#.##..
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...###...# 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 ...###....
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....###..# 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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...###...# 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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...###..#. my mother said i kept to myself in the .###..#.##
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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 .##....#.#
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#....#.##. 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 ##...###..
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#..#.##... and then i got up, and looked around. ..###..#.#
##...###.. it was dark, where it previously had ..#.##...#
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###..#.##. and then i realized that i knew this .#.##.....
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..###..#.# touched the ground. this was her doing! #..#.##...
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