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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. #@@§%==«,.
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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. @@§%%==«,.
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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. #@@§%==«,.
.,«==%§@@# #@@§%==«,.
.,«==%§@## 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. #@@§%==«,.
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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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