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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. ¤$$\«-....
...-«\$$¤# #¤$$\«-...
..-«\$$¤## 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. ¤$$\«-....
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....-«\$$¤ and then i realized that i knew this ¤$$\«-....
...-«\$$¤# darkness. i knew the way the sky #¤$$\«-...
..-«\$$¤## touched the ground. this was her doing! ##¤$$\«-..
.-«\$$¤### she was here! ###¤$$\«-.
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