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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. .....-~††@
@††::~~~-. .-~~~::††@
#@†~--.... 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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##@@*†:~-. ~~~~~--. .--~~~~~ .-~:†*@@##
@††††~~~-. .-~~~††††@
@†:~~..... .....~~:†@
##@@*†:~-. 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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###@*†:~-. ~~~~~--. .--~~~~~ .-~:†*@###
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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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