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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. @%-^......
.^-=%§@### ###@§%=-^.
....^-%§§@ @§§%-^....
.^-=%§@### -----^^. .^^----- ###@§%=-^.
....^-=%%@ @%%=-^....
.^-=%@#### ####@%=-^.
.^-=%%§§§# 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. ###@§%=-^.
...-==%@@@ @@@%==-...
.....--%%@ 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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