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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   ¨.~†*%&£##
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##£&%*†~.¨     Really Stick Together. I Took My     ¨.~†*%&£##
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##£&%*†~.¨   Her Knees But Then Somehow Also Back   ¨.~†*%&£##
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###£&*†~.¨ Checkered Shirt. She Was On Television.  ¨.~†*&£###
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##£&%*†~.¨   And The World Became Dull Around Me.   ¨.~†*%&£##
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##£&%*†~.¨             Had Been Real...             ¨.~†*%&£##
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##£&%*†~.¨   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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##£&%*†~.¨    Dozens Of Crashed Cars, All My Car,   ¨.~†*%&£##
##£&%*†~.¨              Some On Fire.               ¨.~†*%&£##
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##£&%*†~.¨     Darkness. I Knew The Way The Sky     ¨.~†*%&£##
##£&%*†~.¨  Touched The Ground. This Was Her Doing! ¨.~†*%&£##
#£%%*††~.¨               She Was Here!              ¨.~††*%%£#
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