Findings:

• There was a time when I was a better person
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• There was a cold day
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There was a time before
• Before you, there was me
• Where's the kaboom?
• One hour there was sunlight
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Was it ever there?
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• There was a baby in China
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was an old lady
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• and there was this girl
• I was there
• A knock there was upon the door
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• No shit, there I was
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There Was A Friend
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• Was There a Time
• There was no one waiting for me...
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
• There was a rose that faded young
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was a man and a woman
• Where I'm From, You'd Think There Was a Tea Party Going On in the Hostess Dumpster
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I remember, there was one
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There Was No Leak
• If I was beautiful, I'd know it
• There once was a girl named Irene
• 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.
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• There was once a Man
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Back when grunge was still cool
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• Is And Is Not As It Was
• I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
• I was one of those girls
• For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
• Gizmo was insane
• Little plaques that say "So-And-So Was Born Here"
• it wasn't the terrorism that flung us apart, it was the pigeons
• 'T Was Such a Little, Little Boat
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• This was my childhood
• The dot-com fallout: Was hype to blame?
• When I Was Cruel
• I was a college Jeopardy! champion
• How the West Was Won
• It was a Dork and Starmly Night
• Kristine Dunn was therefore butterscotch
• With him it was always like
• Was fang ich an in dieser Stadt?
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• So I was drinking with the son of Man the other night, and...
• When I Was A Baby
• so my crowd was Catholic, Protestant, atheist, confused, and white
• Why was Cthulhu blue?
• If Dr. Seuss Was A Tech Writer
• I was aghast, yet intrigued
• The train station was fucking freezing and
• People wouldn't fall in love so often if it were more clearly marked
• I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• amidst the tangled material of what was
• Watashi wa Ko Neko
• I was young and I needed the money
• When touch was simple
• Saki wa imasen
• I was addicted to parents
• What if architecture was like web design?
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• Jesus was a liberal
• Battle Ground, Washington
• When I was young Time had no wings
• The Girl Was a Guy
• I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• the Abayudaya sang, no one was hungry and herds of buffalo roamed the plains
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
• That Thursday the Universe was curved in the morning and was flat again by afternoon
• more sure of all I thought was true
• just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
• I was me before being me was cool.
• Petey Piper was a viper
• OR WAS IT
• the seven hills of Rome
• That was a joke, son.
• Was Jesus resurrected as the Easter Bunny?
• Why I didn't get my driver's license until I was 18
• Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• When I Was a Boy
• "I was surprised to hear about the cat."
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VIII
• "It was wrong to do this," said the angel
• Willie was a chemist
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• I was invisible beside you
• Hayane hayaoki wa sanmon no toku
• Running a BBS
• I was raised by the French government
• Go ni itte wa go ni shitagae
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep?
• She is and was
• Why was my poem nuked?
• I am that person I was watching
• Man Was Made to Mourn
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• Several thousand years later and the angel was still as boring as sin
• I lived in interesting times, came to the attention of those in power, and found what I was looking for.
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• This product was tested on cute, furry animals with big, sad eyes
• I was promised flying cars
• In the Beginning was the Command Line
• I was sure it was her
• I'm wishing Jesus was here again
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• My very first mentor was a heroin junkie

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