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.^~=†$§###  Crimes Mostly From Or In My Beloved And ###§$†=~^.
.^~=†$§###   Trusted Car, And Sometimes My Mothers  ###§$†=~^.
.^~=†$§§§#   Barn. We Lived Just Outside Town, A    #§§§$†=~^.
.^~=†$§###   Grove At The End Of A Dirt Road, And   ###§$†=~^.
.....~~=$§   The Barn Was Placed So You Could Just  §$=~~.....
.^~=†$§### Make Out The Surrounding Fields Through  ###§$†=~^.
.^~=†$§###                The Trees.                ###§$†=~^.
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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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.^~=†$§###   There Was Blood Everywhere. Sometimes  ###§$†=~^.
.^~=†$§###  The Blood Was Her Red Lipstick Or Her   ###§$†=~^.
....^~†$## Checkered Shirt. She Was On Television.  ##$†~^....
.^~=†$§###      We Did Crime, And We Made Weird     ###§$†=~^.
.....~††$§  Structures In The Barn, Tall Pillars Of §$††~.....
.^~=†$§###  Dark Wood, Ladders And Plateaus, Fires  ###§$†=~^.
.^~=†$§###  And Fairy Lights. We Would Sleep There  ###§$†=~^.
.^~=†$§### And Drink There And She Would Go In The  ###§$†=~^.
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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.  §†=^......
.^~=†$§###  My Mother Said I Kept To Myself In The  ###§$†=~^.
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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    ##$$††=~^.
.^~=†$§###    Dozens Of Crashed Cars, All My Car,   ###§$†=~^.
.^~=†$§###               Some On Fire.              ###§$†=~^.
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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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