Findings:

• Was it ever there?
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Is there any part of you that really wants this? Or is the pursuit like breathing to you?
• Was the Black Death really just Anthrax?
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• like nothing ever was
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a rose that faded young
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a man and a woman
• Five minutes after falling off the cliff, I realized how high it really was
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• There was once a Man
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a land where lived no violets
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• Is that table really there?
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• 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 thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• Was There a Time
• No one ever said that the moral process of humanization was necessarily a pleasant thing.
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• Adam really was the first man
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• There was an old lady
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Sex with my accountant was always really, really efficient
• I remember, there was one
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• 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 was a man who lived a life of fire
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• One hour there was sunlight
• No one was ever fired for buying IBM
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Same as it Ever Was
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• There was a little girl
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• When, if ever, will there be permanent peace in the Balkans?
• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
• There's no such thing as happily ever after.
• All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in the Dot-Com Apocalypse
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• Why Socrates was really executed
• everyone who ever told me i was pretty was lying.
• All you ever did was let it happen
• No, really, there's STACKS of fun stuff to do here: A defiant Canberra nodermeet
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• I was hit by a train that doesn't really exist
• the horrible gift was really quite right
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• It was really hot, in a Silent Hill kind of way
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• Sex with my sister was always really, really good
• She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
• No shit, there I was
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Where's the kaboom?
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• and there was this girl
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• No one will ever love Adam for his honesty. It's just not there
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• There was a time before
• There was a cold day
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• I was there
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Was A Friend
• Before you, there was me
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There Was No Leak
• There was a baby in China
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
• A knock there was upon the door
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• Once there was a way...
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• There was always the blue of you
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• They all lived happily ever after
• ever
• Ever seen two people talking to each other in their sleep?
• oh ever so slowly
• So what ever happened to Yahweh's drinking buddies?
• Does this ever go away?
• Medgar Evers
• Live the greatest story ever told
• Ever made it with an aardvark? We're quite rare.
• Do you start feeling, ever?
• Diary of a dot-commer
• Don't lie. Ever.
• The most disturbing thing that I have ever seen on the back of a truck
• The best line I ever used
• Longing for brief, but ever unattainable moment of... lucid thought?
• Probably the saddest thing ever
• Why I can't seem to ever finish a node
• Don't you ever go to work?
• Will I ever know?
• the hottest it has ever been
• Have you ever been illusioned?
• Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
• What ever happened to all the fun in the world
• The funniest thing ever on Pinky and the Brain
• The dumbest thing I ever did while under the influence of alcohol
• You're the best thing that ever happened to me, no matter what
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• Can pleasing sight, misfortune ever bring?
• I wonder if he ever thinks about me
• The best magic trick you've ever seen
• The saddest funeral I've ever performed
• Does it ever scare you to be you? Love, Mom
• The best comeback ever
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Silence
• Have you ever made a just man?
• The longest, most complicated undelivered love letter ever
• Have you ever seen a despot with a little nose?
• Greatest Story Ever Told
• The most perfect thing you can ever do
• The best tuna fish sandwich I've ever had
• The U.S. Post Office: Benign little organization, or the linchpin of the greatest conspiracy ever?
• Everything you ever wanted to know about theatre tech, but were afraid to ask
• No one will ever love you for your honesty
• Best Death Ever
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• No government can ever give you freedom
• Things you would bring with you if you were ever invited to shower with jessicapierce
• The Road Goes Ever On
• All I ever needed to know, I learned playing Dungeons and Dragons
• Deconstruction of every single television advertisement, ever
• The worst job interview ever
• If women ever show teeth in a quiet greeting, it is considered a threat.
• Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
• Just in case you ever wondered..
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• have given my heart away just as carelessly and as meticulously planned as ever

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