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..^»^*%§£# 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. §%*^»^....
.....^»^*% %*^»^.....
......^»^* 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. §%*^»^....
.....^»^*% %*^»^.....
......^»^* 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 §%*^»^....
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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 ^»^.......
......^»^* 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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