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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. ~.........
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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. ..........
.......... ..........
.......... 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. ..........
.......... ..........
.......... 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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