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......:~=@ = mirage class goth gf = @=~:......
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.:~:=&@#@# #@#@&=:~:.
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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. @&==~:....
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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 @#@&&=:~:.
.:~:=&@#@# 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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.:~:==&&&@ ~~~~~::. .::~~~~~ @&&&==:~:.
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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. @&=~::....
.:~:=&@### ###@&=:~:.
..:::::==@ 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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