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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.   :.........
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.......:«^    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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