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• I did not need it. I was strong. I was steady. I knew what I was doing.
• She knew what she was doing
• that pain was something I needed, and probably did to myself
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• She was steady
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• I was young and I needed the money
• I was monied and I needed the youth
• She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
• The first time I knew I was different
• UK's response to 'Extroadinary Rendition': SIS knew US was torturing suspects.
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• We did not know it was a war
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• 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.
• If the government wasn't involved in the Sept 11 attacks, what was it doing?
• I was doing so well.
• Was that real, or did I dream it?
• Everything Hitler did was legal
• All you ever did was let it happen
• I did not miss what my body did not remember, until it was reminded
• What I would do If I knew what was good for me
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• It was the year 2000. Nobody knew what was coming.
• I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• When he removed his stilton sword from my fart valve, he was pleasantly surprised to see a toilet twinkie staring back as him. He knew I couldn't wait to lap the colon cobra off his ample cock.
• Seriously, though, who the hell did I think I was going to become?
• Everything Stalin did was legal
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• Before you, there was me
• This is a node that was solely created to fill the PQ criteria. Klaproth Ahoy!
• It was crippled, it was heart-felt. The latter invariably trumps the former
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
• She was too beautiful to be human
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• Sal Allahu Allahi Wa Salam
• Several thousand years later and the angel was still as boring as sin
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There was a little girl
• A Child Was Born in 64
• all it cost him was a Penny
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• There was once a Man
• Back when grunge was still cool
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• How was the Bible canonized?
• I was a Difficult Child
• The distance between two atoms was the distance between 6 months ago and today
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Last year was always better
• I don't remember what her name was so let's call her Doris
• the lake was on fire that summer
• Sympathy for the Mongols & How The Rise of the West was just sheer Dumb Luck
• Money was paper
• Battle Ground, Washington
• When I was young Time had no wings
• She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
• Would you tell me if it was true?
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
• The sloe was lost in flower
• more sure of all I thought was true
• No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• and with that, the final word was written
• Finding air where matter once was
• In unlit streets, running wild in the dark, creatures of the Void are seeking what was lost
• I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Was Already Gone.
• if I was goody
• And the sky was made of amethysts
• Upon my indulgence, I was dissatisfied
• if music was a woman you would have a mistress
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• Tomorrow I was
• I was born this way
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
• That Was The Year That Was
• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• There once was a girl named Irene
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• I was known as the counselor of the naked cabin
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• Running a BBS
• Duvall, Washington
• Go ni itte wa go ni shitagae
• Adam was a rough draft
• The lawn was white with doctors
• Where I Was
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• Baby I Was Lonely (user)
• The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh
• Your husband was a great man
• Jesus was not a reactionary reformer, learn your history bud!
• she was waylaid by an octopus
• I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
• Why I was Not Popular as a teenager
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
• The Princess who was Hidden Underground
• being a kid was great
• sifting sand to find fading past in smooth stones, sorrow was here
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• I was meant for this
• What the hell was she thinking?
• I was the center of gravity of Chicago for one beautiful Saturday
• Saki wa imasen
• I was addicted to parents
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• The skyline was beautiful on fire
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• I was so cool, that first afternoon
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• The sky rained tears. I was sure.
• I was a teenage Bukowski
• Kristine Dunn was therefore butterscotch
• With him it was always like
• The dynasty made people die in nasty ways. This mess was necessary and they're not sorry.
• I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• At Least One Kitten was Obliterated
• Azza Wa Jal
• This is no joke; I always thought it was a company that made trench coats.
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• I don't think the sun was up
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• my only pin-up was Pelé
• This product was tested on cute, furry animals with big, sad eyes
• Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
• i wonder if that was meant to console
• Na of Wa
• It was all I could do not to cry
• I was in a commercial once
• As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
• If a black hole were created on Earth
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Willie was a chemist
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• If I was beautiful, I'd know it
• Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• There was a cold day
• Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
• I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• All I wanted was a Pepsi

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