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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. #¤††=,,,,,
,,,,=††¤#@ @#¤††=,,,,
,,,=††¤#@# 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. #¤††=,,,,,
,,,,=††¤#@ @#¤††=,,,,
,,,=††¤#@# 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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