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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. .,~=%%@###
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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. .......,~=
%=~,...... ......,~=%
%%=~,..... 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. ...,~=%%@#
@%%=~,.... ....,~=%%@
%%=~,..... 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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