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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. @*†.......
..«†**@@@# #@@@**†«..
..«†**@@## 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. @*†.......
..«†**@@@# #@@@**†«..
......«*@@ 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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..«†**@@@# «««««... ...««««« #@@@**†«..
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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. #@@@**†«..
..«†**@@@# #@@@**†«..
......«*@@ 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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