Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Those halcyon days of yore when Chris still had the goodwill of the people, before we knew he was a monster."

• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• 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.
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• He had a life before he met you, you know
• Back when our blood was still warm
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• And in those days was armageddon
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• If a frog had wings, he wouldn't kick his tail when he jumped
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
• And only those who had been there knew the whole truth.
• Back when grunge was still cool
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
• When I was young Time had no wings
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• It's only love: at the end of the day, there are still thunderstorms and sunsets
• One of those days
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• he had a dream
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• we broke it in days, years later still broken
• To this day, I still keep my eyes open
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• The Island of the Day Before
• Christ Was Born on Christmas Day
• every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
• Food was purer in the good old days
• You had to pretend success was fucked
• When each had their own personal anthem
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was
• Cybersex before it was cool
• When I woke up this morning I had no regrets - I felt no shame
• At night, when we walked by the wall, the world seemed to fall down before us - the whole, far-off, dirty world.
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• These are the days when birds come back
• Halcyon Days
• The day he gave me a lift
• Upon the hills where day was done
• The only significant bit of nonsense I carried around in those days
• I met him two days ago and now he wants to fly me to Peru
• Loving someone, knowing down to the day when you will leave them.
• Those were the days of miracles and splendour
• When Chris Came Home
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• Ground rush
• When did you decide to forget every wrong you had done?
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• I had seen the whole thing coming like a ghost train. Here I am on the tracks, still bleeding, taking phone numbers, haunted.
• More than he was willing to give
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• the days before porn
• RFC 1882
• When Askeladden and the Troll had an Eating Competition
• Early, before our hands knew what to do
• Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
• Things to do on Valentine's day when you're single
• With all the advances in technology it still takes 3 days to clear a cheque
• How many times has God twiddled his thumbs before he put vertebrates on the Earth?
• Some vampires actually get pissed when you tell them to Have A Nice Day
• DeDe Halcyon Day
• The day I realized what being alive was
• Driving my Saturn through Jupiter on a day when the mercury hit 100 degrees
• I was a father for a few days
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• Preaching Christianity to hitch hikers when you don't believe in God on the day of the Devil
• Goodbye, Halcyon Days
• a bad day is when I lie in the bed and think of things that might have been
• Are you on drugs or just having one of those days?
• Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
• I met a girl in the garden who was doomed to die the next day.
• I knew before I met you just how we would end
• The day I was showering with two black men
• i just keep waiting for the day when i'll see you again
• it'd break my heart but if i knew you got away it'd give me peace of mind till the day i die
• The other day I saw a gas station called Space Age! I was not fooled!
• He Had Not Where To Lay His Head
• Remember when you had words for everything?
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• I was once young and had a home
• When the rescue plane landed, I realized we had resorted to cannibalism too soon.
• She disappeared as if he had only dreamed her
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Grammatical and syntactic puzzles
• Before Time Was
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• You've Always Had a Hidden Agenda, but people were busy with other things
• King George he had a Date
• It was a dark and stormy night. I had taken a creative writing class.
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• When Chopin finished a piece he stopped writing it
• As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
• The one he murdered once still loves him
• I had no idea what he thought about me.
• You should have killed me when you had the chance
• before either of us had to turn away
• I remember the minimizer's playbook before it was killing grandmas
• I was Chris to him
• i was given a mind before i was given a heart
• Those were the days
• Music was better in the old days
• I get more done after midnight than most people do all day
• the days of yore
• When I Heard at the Close of Day
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• Expecting your wedding to be the happiest day of your life
• all those days are gone
• You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life even if you had an electrified fooling machine!
• Stoned music memories
• So I was cold chillin on the corner on a hot summer's day
• Days Before
• We do more after 2am than most people do all day.
• I've had you here before
• Just One Of Those Days
• I was Christian for a day
• The Day the World was about to End
• There was a cold day
• You know it is going to be a strange day when you wake up dead
• The day I found out I was a guy
• When the eye of day is shut
• Days when art is too much to bear
• I fall in love with my migraine, every day he seduces me with a kiss.
• i'm a million different people from one day to the next
• Did you think of me before you knew me?
• I Had Already Quit That Job About 20 Days Ago...in my mind, anyway
• Still the best 15 minutes of your day
• I remember, back in the day, when the Other Users list never exceeded 19
• And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed
• Do they know those days are golden? Build a rocket boys
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• There Are Days When I Leave My Life Next to My Black Boots
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• I've had better hugs from wind gusts and dead people
• the day when the peasants would eat all the British media
• It was a green field and a pleasant day
• The Day Earth Was Born
• He had something to say. He said it.
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• The Message of King Sakis and the Legend of the Twelve Dreams He Had in One Night
• I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
• When you had left our pirate fold

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