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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. §§§\~~....
.....~~\§§ §§\~~.....
......~~\§ 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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