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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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