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• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• That Was Then, This is Now
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Now it was personal
• Now that was a scary ending
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• it was true then
• Music was better in the old days
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• I still miss you, now and then. You'll never know.
• Marilyn Monroe was a size 16
• There was a rose that faded young
• Jesus was Mexican
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• deru kugi wa utareru
• No one was ever fired for buying IBM
• It was a dangerous, stupid infraction and I deserve the ticket
• Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
• My Johnny Was a Shoemaker
• When I was five
• Adam really was the first man
• Okay, okay, I confess! It was me! I broke the internet!
• Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• The beggar who was too rich for my money
• I was a college Jeopardy! champion
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• The sky rained tears. I was sure.
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• Baby I Was Lonely (user)
• what was it (user)
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• What was the question?
• I'm glad the evil overlord was on my team
• She was locked in time
• Why Smokey Bear was wrong
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• In the end it was always a stranger's hand
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
• In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
• Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
• Johnny was a parachuter
• The state that almost was
• The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel
• War is only fun on screen
• When I was young Time had no wings
• There was a cold day
• Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was
• Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
• Kristine Dunn was therefore butterscotch
• This is a node that was solely created to fill the PQ criteria. Klaproth Ahoy!
• It seemed like all was mostly bullshit
• Everything Stalin did was legal
• Was (Not Was)
• It was a dark and stormy night
• Was not cleanly unmounted, check forced
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• Lando was supposed to die
• It was more than perfect understanding
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• it was my birthday
• Heinlein was right- writing IS a disease....
• I don't think I was rude to her, just cold and curt
• At least he was gentle
• Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
• I was my mom for a while
• If I were a genetic engineer
• Nostalgic for a time that I never experienced and for a person I never was
• What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
• My purity was little stickers I willingly gave away in exchange for hearts
• Since Hector was a pup
• Go ni itte wa go ni shitagae
• As I was saying to my goldfish
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• The sloe was lost in flower
• apart from the shade which it offered, there was also the possibility of "French kissing"
• All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• When I was your age
• hodgepodge was just a one-night stand, apparently
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
• Leather bound organizer
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• tonari no shibafu wa aoi
• I couldn't sit, it was Thursday
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter III
• I was a prisoner in a Mexican whorehouse
• was ist das? (user)
• How Eulenspiegel, along with the other boys, was made to eat too much bread
• What if architecture was like web design?
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• She was never mine. I always shared her.
• It was just a crush
• Gautami was neurosis personified
• How the West Was Won
• A virtuous woman was a manly woman, in the womanly fashion of being manly
• The lawn was white with doctors
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• I was adored once too
• Honesty is the best policy, but wait a while
• This was unexpected, my soul's connection to you
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• Born with the gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad
• What was left after the party
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• She was steady
• I remember, there was one
• I'm not a geek, and I wish I were
• Was Charles Darwin a Social Darwinist?
• She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• W.A. Thornhump III
• Was the Black Death really just Anthrax?
• I was Christian for a day
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• It was fall, and fall does strange things to us all
• With him it was always like
• the horrible gift was really quite right
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Now and Then, Here and There
• the seven hills of Rome
• It was all God's fault
• WoOz: 17 How the Balloon Was Launched
• I woke up and thought it was Saturday
• Her name was Natalie
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• Since I was knee-high to a grasshopper
• The sun was caught playing unashamedly in her auburn hair, setting our world on fire with giddiness
• It Was a Lover and His Lass
• The Haunting That Was Not
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• I was never broken
• Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Yesterday was Dramatic, Today is OK
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• Wenatchee, Washington
• Nu Wa
• There was a time before
• I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• Magneto Was Right
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• Then And Now
• Cybersex before it was cool
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• wa (user)
• I was only following orders
• New Mexico, or was that Oklahoma?
• The Man Who Was (user)
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter IV
• I Was A Cow
• Raleigh Was Right
• Where the floodwaters went after the flood was over
• She was so pleased to learn that she was right
• That was the moment
• When she was bad

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