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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. .......~~=
~~........ ........~~
~......... 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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$$=~~..... i died by getting shot in the head .....~~=$$
@$$=~~.... while ramming the fence to a military ....~~=$$@
#@$$=~~... facility. by this time they had been ...~~=$$@#
##@$$=~~.. chasing me for days. i lost control ..~~=$$@##
###@$$=~~. over the car, crashed it into a rock .~~=$$@###
##@$$=~~.. wall and flew out the windshield. ..~~=$$@##
#@$$=~~... ...~~=$$@#
@$$=~~.... and then i got up, and looked around. ....~~=$$@
$$=~~..... it was dark, where it previously had .....~~=$$
$=~~...... been a bright day. around me where ......~~=$
=~~....... dozens of crashed cars, all my car, .......~~=
~~........ some on fire. ........~~
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~~........ the ground was sticky, red. ........~~
=~~....... .......~~=
$=~~...... and then i realized that i knew this ......~~=$
$$=~~..... darkness. i knew the way the sky .....~~=$$
@$$=~~.... touched the ground. this was her doing! ....~~=$$@
#@$$=~~... she was here! ...~~=$$@#
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