Findings:

• There once was a girl named Irene
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There was a little girl
• 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.
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• and there was this girl
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• There was once a Man
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Once there was a way...
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• Before you, there was me
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• You can't get there from here
• It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There Was No Leak
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was an old lady
• this girl I was in love with
• This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor.
• Fun Girls from Mt. Pilot
• As long as there are girls left do dance with this world is worth saving
• 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
• Time is nature's way of stopping things from happening all at once
• Was There a Time
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There Was A Friend
• There was a baby in China
• I was there
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• How my Father was excommunicated from the LDS Church
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• There is no one here to stop me from using this silence.
• I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• what once I was
• I was a nice guy once
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• No shit, there I was
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There was a cold day
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• The envelope held fingernail parings and a note which read, "There are more where these came from"
• For every delayed technology there is a sudden, completely unexpected advance that jumps at us from the shadows
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space
• Where do these girls come from these days? Some finishing school in the desert?
• Rhesus Monkeys and Dormant Underwater Volcanos: the "I can't believe there's nobody here from Madagascar" E2 Madagascar get-together
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• I was one of those girls
• Galatea was a bookish girl
• The Girl Was a Guy
• I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
• The girl from nowhere
• The green Orion slave girl from Star Trek
• As long as there are girls left to dance with this world is worth saving
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• I was in a commercial once
• I met a girl in the garden who was doomed to die the next day.
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• every noder was once a normal human
• Crazy? I was crazy once.
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• Why I am going to pretend I am a girl online from now on
• Love is stored in the memories of what once was
• Where's the kaboom?
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a rose that faded young
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• One hour there was sunlight
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There was a time before
• There was a man and a woman
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• A knock there was upon the door
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• Spring's a girl from the streets at night
• The hot girls from cold countries have scars you're not supposed to see
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• There and Back Again: Eating Our Way from Bag End to the Grey Havens, A Hobbit's Tale
• certain wisdoms about a place can only come from dying there
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• The trail of its demise was visible from the surf.
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• Devil Girl from Mars
• Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
• Deliver me from a place where there are no scars.
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• There is a girl
• I convert my crushes into friends, and from there to the status of Muse
• qanat get there from here
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• There's a girl in New York City who calls herself the human trampoline
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• There are a million girls like me out there
• The highlight of my night was two girls kissing
• The dry and exalted noise of the locusts from all the air at once enchants my eardrums
• Girl from Mars
• I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Was Already Gone.
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• Mighty aspirations you got there, girl
• the last time I clobbered a human soul it was over a red-nosed girl and a schoolbook in County Derry
• Who Was the Wine Girl?
• The Girl from Ipanema
• I once was a clueless young noder
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• Where Once Life Was
• Leather-bound organizer
• There are no girls on the internet
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• Once there came a man
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• I was once young and had a home
• 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!
• I was in a blindfold taste test once...
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• Finding air where matter once was
• I was adored once too
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• I have been alone while I was with many girls
• Lessons in French from a girl: Vous and Tu
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a time when I was a better person
• she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
• Was it ever there?
• I remember, there was one
• Once was enough
• Removed from humanity, I realized I was just another distraction

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