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Once upon a time, there was a poor family with a son. In their every day life, they knew there were always challenges, yet there was just a constant thought within them that no matter what, they were sure that somehow, someway, one of them would get through all of it. The children were tough and they were kind, yet at the same time, there was always the question of whether or not they really were needed at all. The children were strong and in many ways, they were strong like their father. Yet
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Once upon a time, there was a young man named Hector.
This week we're looking at four characters from those pages - all of which had romantic attachments - who find themselves going about their lives away from each other (and therefore are not friends). These are people who learn to assert themselves, to ask for help, to think on their own, to face death, to cry.
They aren't just characters from a novel - they're from history - as well as fictional books.
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Once upon a time, there was a young lady named Holly. She had a cat as a pet, and so decided to adopt a stray one as her own and keep her as a pet. And it was the beginning of a lovely friendship.
Time passed by and she and her new cat, Tom, became great buddies. And when Tom began growing a little bit bigger and started spending time with Holly’s friend, Mimi, they became even closer and more than just best friends. Mimi asked if Mimi could
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Once upon a time, there was a person who was, well… a bit eccentric. So, when we meet today’s “first ever” W.O.W.’s Maniac, one of the first things he says, is “At least that’s what I said when I first seen him for the first time, in the middle of a conversation”.
Well, it’s even better when you consider, he knew he was being asked to lead the next
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Once upon a time, there was a young mother who couldn't get a job, so her husband took the family car. Then suddenly his employer gave him an unexpectedly large raise, so her husband took his family car. Then suddenly his employer gave him a mysterious new promotion, so her husband was instantly put in charge of the new office. But he couldn't be the director. Then suddenly his wife got pregnant again, so he took out his family car for the second time. Then suddenly a mysterious new factory suddenly showed up, so his
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Once upon a time, there was a guy named Marcus van de Beek.
He was a member of Chelsea's youth team at the time and he was only 22 years old. He was quite a bit older than I would be at 22, but I've got the feeling that I've forgotten the most important difference between the two, apart from just how many more games he had to go without.
In fact, so many were the kind of games he was involved in, we were even able to compete with each other
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Barack Obama.
That man, Obama, was one of the brightest political minds of the last two decades, despite having a run-in with the late Senator Jesse Helms.
In February 1993, after the election was called because George H.W. Bush was in the last days of his term, Obama convened a meeting at the University of Illinois — where the debate over social and racial inequality could be best expressed if at any point you could declare the world a police state
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Once upon a time, there was a girl named Jane. And when she had no money, and had nothing that was worth making money with, her mother would bring her out of school to help on the family farm. And when she found something to make money with, it was clothes. And when she found something that was really good to make money with, she'd cut the cloth right up. And one night when she had been wearing that same cut she'd cut the cloth, and that something had been making money, she cut open
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Once upon a time, there was a little boy who was looking forward to Halloween night and Halloween was so important because it brought the dangers of a scary movie and trick-or-treaters. One fateful night the kid's family headed in with two loud relatives asking for an alarm clock to be passed around to other kids at Halloween time. The kid was irritated because a stranger would have to wake him up while the family made food for themselves, one of their children would have to get up before the witch, and the others wouldn't
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Once upon a time, there was a kid named Peter Van Patten who grew up in New York City and was always good at math and science. Even as an adult he thought of himself as a strong mathematician. Very few people were interested in him. However, all of a sudden one day his teacher told him that in science his parent education and high school education were the same. In other words, the math teacher was the same as his teacher in the school. Not long after that, Peter was already a graduate and teaching math and
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Once upon a time, there was a kid whose favourite hobby was reading books.
He was always reading and reading and reading so he was always at his job
His job didn’t pay very well – he would often go hungry, yet he read – so one day, he decided to make a career change and enter the insurance sales business. After a year and some change he realised, against his own natural instincts, that the books, even read by the kids were very dull. His work became far better, but he
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Once upon a time, there was a great and marvelous princess whose life was all sunshine. She prided herself on being a master of the arts of love and had many admirers. She had a new baby, but no one could say why. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. All appeared to be in the normal order of things. Then one day her brother decided to do something very special for her and that was to make her marriage to another great and marvelous prince all the more memorable and glorious to all the world. No one knew
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Once upon a time, there was a poor woman who lived in a tiny village. She was too poor to afford a glass of wine or even a good meal, so she drank coffee, plain old water from a well, half a loaf of bread, and a handful of apples.
Funny how different lives can turn out.
On that same evening, the shop’s proprietor happened to drop in on a poor widow who was enjoying a quiet meal with her daughters, using only the most basic of utens
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Once upon a time, there was a TV show called Curfew.
It was the first crime-drama show that got better with age – and made kids watch and laugh with unabashed joy more than maybe anyone could have imagined on the day it debuted.
The premise? A crime story set at night: how the police and the kids in the neighbourhoods around them (and the FBI too if they were feeling a bit up their own arse) solved crimes, and the show had become so iconic that you even had
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Once upon a time, there was a man
A man who lived very far from home,
A man who loved only himself,
And to others he was both kind and gentle,
But even this man was a man for all seasons,
and the ground he lived on, this ground he clung to,
Was a ground the sun fought and died for,
To keep him from the devil he would always seek.
It was the ground to which he vowed his last oath
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Once upon a time, there was a spade team. Actually, it was only the spade team - you probably saw me mention it because I was part of it. What's a spade team? Well, it's one person who's digging up or dragging the spade out of the earth, so it must have a name - at least one spade team, which is how it would be organized.
The spade team kept their spades clean. Of course the team usually got a kick out of throwing themselves
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Once upon a time, there was a man who loved money. He knew all its habits, its temptations, its unalterable strengths and weaknesses in the same way as he was sure that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Money had its strengths and its weaknesses too. The canny man knew that when it came to money, people seldom behaved in one direction throughout all of the world's natural cycles. However, there were some tricks of money: some it had its weakness, some its strength.
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Once upon a time, there was a large and stable population of children growing up in a small African village. Their parents had some experience with farming and could work a few tasks at hand, such as tending the fields or doing general labour. They were called by their fathers and mothers from those professions, and the two were in constant friendly contact. No one questioned what or who they called, for the obvious reason that it simply didn't matter to any more. It didn't matter because they never cared who they called.
The children
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Once upon a time, there was a very small place (a good thing, by the way!), with an extremely long name. It was populated with small children who were all walking two and three mile long blocks to school on bikes to get a cool, casual shirt and shorts, beamed up at the factory doors, and then dropped by a bus, back on their bikes, to get to school. Actually they were a bit nicer than the buses people ever had, in so many ways, they were better, more stylish, more intelligent
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Once upon a time, there was a girl named Clara Hill. She liked to play in the woods until she had been up all night and couldn’t get down to look for a needle in a dream. She liked to read until she had tried to read the Holy Bible all night long. She liked to swim all summer long—you’d see her going into the pool wearing nothing but a rubber bathing suit and big sunglasses and a spool tied around her waist. She liked to watch Star Wars and have sex with other
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Once upon a time, there was a dog. Not as lucky in life as he might have been—a dog named Nellie in England, but she was a dog. So, to commemorate her, she had a name: Nellie Jones.
The first Nellie Jones dog died the day that Mrs. Jones, the wife of the writer, saw her (if her daughter Jolyon doesn’t come up with the better name of “Nellie Brown” in her essay “
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Once upon a time, there was a girl named Harriet the wife of a nobleman, who was not a particularly good wife. She was cruel, uncaring, and selfish. One evening, when she was feeling particularly peevish, her husband caught her unawares, pulled her head into the fire, and knocked it off against a tree. The poor woman, no longer able to stand upright, slipped into the cold ashes. However, she didn’t get much time to get over the shock of the discovery, for
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Once upon a time, there was a world with a kingdom that stretched from India to China, and the western coast of Africa to the Amazon. There was a king.
The land was like this: two continents in a single ocean, with one or two hot spots. The three biggest ones were in Africa (Tunji in Sudan; Mozo in Ethiopia), in Asia (Cape Agulhas in Cape Verde and Angatia in Brazil), and the Middle East (Balkan region). In the east
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Once upon a time, there was a young guy named Simon Stoddard who went off to college for his junior year in high school, got a full ride to the University of Texas because it had a great name and, guess what, his grades were great, and went to Texas like everybody else. He went to the school, got a BSEE right out of high school and went to an extremely good college, a school that you might think of as a little of a well known school. Simon Stoddard was well liked at
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Once upon a time, there was a person that helped an animal by running underneath it to save it. This person is now dead, and so is this animal.
I was just talking to someone the other day, and the conversation mostly revolved around the theme of “how did he know that was so important?”. His take was “it’s kind of magic trick”, but the explanation for why he is such a crucial figure in the story is actually the least weird aspect of the character
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Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Jack who lived in a castle.
He had traveled through many lands, met many wonderful people and made many friends.
However, even the best wishes from Jack’s many friends and the warm embrace and cuddles by their mothers would not change his fate, as destiny would always see this ‘unlucky’ little boy fall into the lake and drown.
This was his story and to live or die, it was his destiny
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Once upon a time, there was a small shop on Saint Patrick’s Street in Dublin city, and before it, there was Saint Patrick’s Square. With it came the very famous Saint Patrick’s Pipe Band, one of the city’s very best live musical acts, and its former location in The Green Room, a kind of house party in Saint Patrick’s Street. It wasn’t so much a shop that opened up in Saint Patrick’s Square, though. There was a
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Once upon a time, there was a time when Google wasn’t supposed to exist.
If you thought Google was dead, you haven’t been paying attention for the last half of 2013. The company debuted their Android-powered smartphones (the Nexus 4 is only half-working phones that have fallen apart [here] and the Nexus 7 has all kinds of bugs. Just sayin’…) on 4chan, and then officially launched their Android Wear devices in 2013.
Things are a bit different this year
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Once upon a time, there was a little girl's name for you: Shelly.
I once had a love affair with this girl when I was eleven years old, and the most amazing thing that happened was when I really wished she was mine. And it was because my feelings for her were the best and I was falling in love. And one day this girl was singing "Shelly Giggles". And it showed on my face as if I wasn't just a normal eleven-year-old girl. No, I was
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Once upon a time, there was a village which was just about to self-destruct. Now we know it to be the Village of the Hungry Ghost.
When you are new a virtual village, it is your first step of training. The player first has to select how his ghost is fed (permanently or semi-permanently). The choice dictates if he is a permanent ghost or a semi-permanent ghost. After that the player will start to work their way through the games tutorial, trying to teach the villagers their
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Once upon a time, there was a princess. She was kind, her voice could be trusted, and she gave to her subjects love and good will.
She was late, and her heart was full, so she was eager to have tea to eat. She was tired, so she wanted to leave. But her family was always happy at her requests, and she was one with them.
She was a good Princess. She smiled happily as her subjects entered the palace. They were polite, and gentle. They waited for
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Once upon a time, there was a man with a massive, intimidating temper. And it was very much in evidence that day, at the end of the day, that he might've come to realise something of great value. And that day was his son. He had two, almost eight, little boys. He and she.
'It's a shame to be stuck here, and with four mouths to feed, you really have no choice.'
He was in his mid-thirties at the time, he saw
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Once upon a time, there was a wonderful and noble lady.
This noble lady had the best manners, the best cook,
Her two daughters made the most beautiful porridge,
And her husband used to have a special roast lamb;
This husband was tall and strong, his two sons were very charming;
This husband used to talk to his wife all day long.
This husband did not believe in taking a rest
Until he got into bed with his wife, and that was long
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Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved nothing better than being in the kitchen. She was the primary cook in the family and always on the lookout for new ingredients to add to the family pantry. She didn’t have a lot of money in the bank, so cooking was what she loved to do. Then, one day, she was sitting at the stove with her grandmother. They were talking and the little girl said, “Grandma, your recipe for spaghetti sauce is the only thing I have been able
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Once upon a time, there was a guy named Fred. He couldn’t remember his name, he was always so sleepy. He liked to take a nap sitting on a park bench, on a playground, or with friends. At times this might happen while walking to a gym or while playing basketball with his friends. The only thing he knew for sure was, he would fall asleep while holding a magazine or an open book, he wouldn’t close the book or magazine, on purpose. If he fell asleep, the book
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Once upon a time, there was a little girl
with a little sister, the daughter of her
mother's employer, whom she adored, and
who, from her infant state, looked upon
her as a mother herself.
The little girl was being taught the
acrostic poem "The Monkeys of Ballysax."
She was the type of innocence,
quiet, and dignified.
Once in a tree she began to recite:
The wind was making such loud sounds with
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Once upon a time, there was a guy who read his Bible every night and was
skeptical all the time. He could read but not listen to it. Sometimes,
he was right. Other times, he wasn't. He hated what ever it took to get
right with the text. And, he ended up like the people he wrote about in
the Bible in the Bible times.
One night, he found himself on the side of a river (just so he'd have a
reference point to remember
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Once upon a time, there was a very beautiful girl.
She was well on her way to becoming a woman when she met the most powerful guy who walked the planet-wonderfully tall and handsome, because of his chest.
So naturally, their friendship evolved into the love that would change the world for generations, with their future growing even more beautiful and lovely.
And then, something fell apart.
One day, he found an article in their mailbox. It gave the story: the girl had been
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Once upon a time, there was a lady named Jenny who was quite different from the others, who in fact, was quite odd.
She was tall and a good bit taller than any of the others and very, very slender as well. Her face was quite pleasant, which was entirely different than her odd, rather tarty, looks. The perfect nose was one that was impossible to pass up on. She had long strawberry-blonde hair, which she often wore carelessly, making herself look adorable and quite unnoticeable
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Once upon a time, there was a guy named James Bryant. He worked for QVC’s Good Time Television. You saw him on QVC’s Quick Change show with Jim Manzi and Shannon Bream. “I’m a professional magician,” James informed QVC viewers during this show.
When James B. Bryant announced an end to his time on QVC, he said: “I’m an old-fashioned magician. I’m going to play old-
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Once upon a time, there was a girl named Jessica who loved to cook. She made great brownies and she made the best chocolate-chip cookies, and everything in between. While she was in fifth grade, they asked her if she would like to participate in something called the Miss Golden Baker Pageant, where you dress in a dress of honor. She was happy to say yes.
During her stay, she talked to her mom on the phone every day. She always thanked her mom for what her mother did for her and
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Once upon a time, there was a handsome, smart American boy who dreamed of going to Europe with his closest friends and then on to Africa to study Africa’s wildlife. The boy’s name was Arthur Hartman. He had big ideas for his future and loved to pretend that he’d study zoology or some other natural science, but really he’d study anthropology and travel around the world and learn about the mysterious creatures that lived there.
The youth fantasized all the time when it came to
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Once upon a time, there was a guy who loved his mother, his father and his daughter to pieces.
Such was the case with Cody Keener, the 21-year-old from Missouri who had a 2:1 stroke after he allegedly ran over his mother and a pit bull in a backyard pit, leaving his father unconscious and his small daughter clinging to his legs.
While most people would get over it in a day or so, Cody’s mother, Donna Keener, is still reeling from her son
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Once upon a time, there was a guy named, Steve Jobs. And whoosh there was a Steve Jobs. And he made his mark, or at least his mark’s mark, if ever there was one, on the world of technology and consumer devices, because this guy had just completely blown himself away and left something for us to learn and to grow and to use, and I mean just look at him—well, this guy, I mean, he was just an absolute blast to watch on the screen, and I do
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Once upon a time, there was a cute little dog called Lucy. She couldn’t seem to decide what color dress she wore to school, so the other kids would dress her in what their mothers thought was her best option.
Lucy got tired of that, so one day she decided to get dressed herself, dressing in only the most suitable outfits possible, so that other kids would still dress her in whatever their mom thought her best was.
She did not mind much at all, because she had been taught in
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Once upon a time, there was a prince who was at war.
Fierce, volatile, and clever, he thirsted for
an enemy to fight - and a young girl's
life was suddenly forfeit.
She had taken the stage to perform her
unexpected father's music, and
received the wrath of a cruel emperor.
In order to stay sane, a team of comedians
had devised the perfect tool -
the silent comedy. And after learning
some basic moves from a book, the
two
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Once upon a time, there was a gay man who loved baseball.
Nolan Ryan was a little bit younger, but the sweet, goofy way he expressed himself also put him on a lot of gay men’s radar. As a pitcher with a 2.98 ERA, Ryan had decent numbers from 1987 to 1991, but it was his character and charisma that made him an easy item for gay men.
Early 1990s: Nolan Ryan, a 19-year-old boyhood friend, gets a scouting report on
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Once upon a time, there was a man, living near the train station in a large English town. The man spent much of his time in a pub in that same town. Every day, he would sit at a table and read the newspaper for the umpteenth time. While sitting there, he had many conversations with someone who would eventually begin to hold the weight in his life.
The man passed the time in a drunken haze, and so it goes. He becomes a man of a similar mind, at least for a
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Once upon a time, there was a forest,” one man tells me, “and it was big, so big, so big that if you walked across it a hundred times, you didn’t think the world would collapse. But one night, one of the soldiers who were stationed there, he came and told all the other soldiers what was going on, and all the animals in the forest, and one of them was a very tall one that was called Thor. And because he was a very tall one, they
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Once upon a time, there was a man named James Loew." "He was a mathematician and a practicing gentleman." "Did you know, James, that what we call in general relativity today, we call a gravitational field?" "It's caused by the curvature of the space-time dimensions." "I like to call this space-time fabric, the three-dimensional world, with all that's in this universe as just simply three dimensions... but in the old Einsteinian, Galilean sense in the space-time fabric,
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Once upon a time, there was a girl named Diana. She played guitar in a rock band, met the love of her life, played guitar in the love of her life, drank too much, and was raped by her band mate. One day, the girl-turned-teen came out of her shell, started to feel a new, exciting and terrifying sense of passion, and realized that there was no girl named Diana. And it was time for her to get out of the love of her life's hand and play in her new
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Once upon a time, there was a bank called the Eastern Savings Bank and Trust in Brooklyn. The reason I’m bothering you with it is because you, their sister (the sister was a brilliant manager, too) have to be named after her to be allowed to use their account, and you’ll find that if you’re given her name by the bank, it is written under her original name, of which there are two: First, that of a “minister of the Gospel,” and
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Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Jessie James.
She played in a team of 5 girls of varying ability and ages, but with one specific set of skills that made her a deadly assassin. She was extremely good at the weapons she used.
And that little girl's name was Jessie James.
That's pretty much all you need to know about Jesse James (short for "Jesse James" the one on the left in the image above) as she was the most well-known and best
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Roger, who made a living as a night thief. He would use his briefcase to create a distraction for burglars before committing a crime.
Unfortunately, he didn’t quite succeed in his plans.
It was not an easy life, as he never intended to grow up.
And so, he became a thief.
Unfortunately, he came to hate his profession.
These dark tales continue to follow Roger—and make him a bitter,
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Once upon a time, there was a wealthy man who was considered to be the epitome of human perfection. He was an architect of such an excellent caliber, that his buildings resembled the design of a cross between Notre Dame Cathedral and the Great Wall of China. He was a man revered for his impeccable taste of architecture and art, and he knew that he possessed a rare combination of talent in terms of his architectural craftsmanship and the artistic talent he had displayed in his personal life, with the wife of his second son as a notable example
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Once upon a time, there was a sea of blood.
That's where I was.
I'd been trying so hard to control where I spent my money—my lifestyle—but something was wrong. I wanted to buy a house in California. I also wanted a dog—I didn't have a dog.
I wasn't giving people a chance to say things nice and helpful.
I didn't have a dog. If a girl was crazy enough to find a dog on a website, she'd have
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Once upon a time, there was a boy who turned up at the church door.
He was the youngest brother of the deacon, the parish’s pastor, and, it seemed to him, the “funny” one, the one who arrived late and made a fool of himself.
Something was definitely happening. The deacon had to be shagged before the congregation managed to think of something else for them to do but nothing was quite as hilarious as a surprise “frisson” from
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Once upon a time, there was a kid I knew who had fallen in love with the wonderland of the internet. He was also a dreamer—in search of a life of adventure in the real world—so he had a hard time finding just the right job. I understand firsthand how bad that can be.
I worked with this kid for about six months during my first year out of college. It was a long drive to and from my place of employment, so it was good to get some money in my pocket.
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Once upon a time, there was a boy. The boy was born. He grew up into a man, and in the years since his first death in pursuit of the American Dream, he tried his hand at starting some of his own businesses. His main interest was in selling photography equipment. It was a life that was made interesting by the fact that he was born at the turn of the century, too young to have an American education. The boy's father was a businessman, his mother died when he was still an infant. In his
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Once upon a time, there was a boy named Gregs and he always wanted to make his own way. At the age of four, he felt that he was no longer welcome in his house. He didn’t fit in with his new friends and started to feel insecure and lonely. At age six, Gregs found a toy from the Dactyls and accidentally called them, they arrived in the middle of the night. At eight, Gregs had an idea for a toy he wanted to give his father. He went
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Once upon a time, there was a very short-lived feature-length documentary called Dear John. It was in its final form in the spring of 1974 and yet it was seen by many people through the summer and early fall of 1974, and also helped make its many subsequent trips to the trouble spots of 1970s New York City. It wasn’t that this documentary or any of its later features were the best documentary ever made, but they were certainly a small part of a world that began to appear in that documentary.
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Once upon a time, there was a young girl who thought she’d found her true loves – who shared her true happiness with people who were in heaven with her, and who were able to accomplish the most beautiful of wishes when she wanted to marry and have a family, if that was what she wanted.
After the first season of America’s Next Top Model, we knew it wouldn’t last. In fact, I never thought it would. After so many long and frustrating months of watching my favorite sweet
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Grogart, who lived in a faraway town in the north country. Grogart owned his lands with a long standing that ended when he saw some blacker horses in an adjacent field and was compelled to put them on his land. It is a long way away from his town, and Grogart did not actually live there, but instead had a second home there. Now it was winter, and Grogart put a goodly number of warm jackets and blankets on his
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Once upon a time, there was a robot. In fact, for quite awhile and since they first started developing robots, they thought of a robot as a robot. I’m not making this up. I had this toy with me on a daytrip to a friend’s home. She even had a stuffed cat. At this point I was a child again.
“Can you tell me what happens when I go into that door?” I asked the cat. It took me a second to realize what
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Once upon a time, there was a young woman in the land. She was beautiful and she had a big smile. She was so special that it wasn’t long before she began to attract men who sought her out at dinner parties and in pubs. Now, I will confine my reminiscences to the young women I encountered and their eventual falling-out because those women were the exceptions…
And just to really put some horror into your lives, I will tell you here that the young woman in question was Christian
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Once upon a time, there was a man named John Smith who had a
fine mare called Joanna who was a true champion.
But what really happened was that he had a girl in his family that didn't
look much like a champion, not in the way she could take you down by one
inch in length but she was nearly an arm's length taller than you, and
she had muscles on her that could knock you sideways as she rode you.
But I digress.
The day John came up
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Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved her beau and yet had another friend who was madly in love with her. She was always getting little gifts that just made her happy.
And then, two of those gifts started to turn into big things..
Now, she was the girl who loved her beau. She had been given the gift of love. She was the most-loved girl in her group of friends. There were even some who were jealous of her feelings for him.
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Daniel and a woman called Mary. It was a happy, peaceful and beautiful time.
It was a time where many things went very well and then nothing much ever went wrong. Things went very well in general, such as: their house had two outbuildings, one for Daniel’s, and one for Mary’s, and these two buildings were separated by a wall on one side, with an alley between and a secret entry on the other side. In this
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Jules Verne who made a play that changed the world. Now, just about everyone thinks Jules Verne was a writer of genius because in his day and age, Verne was way ahead of his time. The play was written in 1896, before the first motorcar, before airplanes, airplanes were well underway, and before television became pervasive.
The play Verne wrote, "The Mysterious Island," was set in a deserted island where a group of scientists gather and search
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Once upon a time, there was a boy named Charlie. He loved music. Music allowed him to escape from the boring lessons of regular schools, school concerts and lessons in the Bible class. It made him wonder if God existed and if God even knew him.Charlie loved the Lord Jesus Christ because He had saved him from the trials and tribulations of a life of religious fundamentalism. He had listened to the prophets and been made aware God had abandoned His people when they were brought before the Great White Throne.Charlie walked the streets everyday and
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Once upon a time, there was a little girl with hair that had the texture of straw. Her mother gave her an apple and had the hair weave into a sweater for the girl. It was embroidered with black thread to make it shine. Over the apple she placed an apple-shaped book, and on the cover was a picture of the girl with a black ribbon around her neck, trying to look like a real girl.
That was the day her life changed forever. She was blind from birth, and a hand was found
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Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Camilla Beardsley who was in the cast of the latest Broadway Show by that name. When her parents died, she lost almost everything: her wealth, her possessions, her power. She was locked away in an unmarked and haunted house on Long Island. One by one, she slowly succumbed to the allure of the dark power that ruled her life. Every now and then, she would escape to the small town of Highbridge, NY and occasionally even into the town of West
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Once upon a time, there was a girl named Debbie.
Debbie was a cheerleader, a lover of the arts, a lifelong fan of opera, and a proud and independent woman. The day she was pulled from the arms of the famous Italian singer Roberto Alagna and dispatched from her home at 11 p.m., her life would have been in danger, if not for her faithful foster siblings and their extraordinary powers. They were the very real-life superheroes who saved her from the scorned and dangerous Alagna, the
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Once upon a time, there was a young man sitting in the city of Rome. There was a beautiful woman sitting with him who was to become one of his wives. Over the course of the next few years, they were to have a total of eleven children and three great grandchildren.
At the same time, the man lived a wonderful life—one where he was to become the first pope. On December 7 of the same year, he was crowned as Pope Julius II. The crowd yelled “Aahh!”
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Once upon a time, there was a girl who used to play with the animals... even though she knew that not all of them were cute...that most weren't...
and that some of them were really not too nice...
Why they were so nice is something she'd find out as she led the first group of the dogs to the road that would take them from her home to the factory that made them.
She'd turn the dogs around when they weren't looking, even if it meant she couldn't see them
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Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Caroline, whose father was short and who loved her to such an extent that she always got into trouble when his attention was elsewhere. One day, his attention landed squarely on a particular tree. Caroline was the first to jump off, but the tree shattered, leaving her "with a knot in her side and a deep wound." She spent days in the hospital. The doctor insisted that she learn how to walk.
At that point, her father started to work on a new game
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Once upon a time, there was a company with whom I worked. Our product had some sort of recognition from the bottom of our logo, but you know me and all my colleagues and we were still confused about this recognition. We agreed to something along the lines of, you know like if you get the technology, we are going to be more successful. So we didn't really communicate, we didn't try and think of the various angles and all that. We figured out what our first step should be. Then we worked at the top
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Once upon a time, there was a young girl. She is still young, but like a lot of girls her future is already taking shape, a future that will unfold one day, when her parents, her peers, her teachers are no longer there to hold her in their warm embrace. Until then, the girl has two choices. She can either let herself be taken advantage of or she can try and control herself. She chooses to be smart, she chooses to be kind, she chooses to not let herself experience the painful effects of this
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Once upon a time, there was a good guy named James Gordon, who had just graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was looking to start a law degree. James invited a bunch of his cohorts (all of whom he also knew in their own right from his time on the base) over to his home to say, "Remember your first kiss?"
In the history books, that is an essential piece of information - not for something as complicated as a full-blown, complicated romance, but in a simple romantic gesture
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Once upon a time, there was a young man at school who ran away from home and went to live on the streets for years.
Some may now be saying to themselves 'You can't do this, you've got no job' or 'You want to live off of the charity of the people in your village.' This is not the same now though, for the young man found life on the streets rewarding. One might be guilty of these things at best, some might be found guilty and sent to prison or even hanged.
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Once upon a time, there was a young woman who wanted nothing more than to be a part of the American dream. She went to college, landed a great job, and started a company with her friends—a start that was quick and without any issues, but something was missing. The young woman was a little naïve, in that she thought she would be able to handle things on her own, and she wasn’t too sure about her place in society. Some would say that she was naïve. She was going to have what
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Once upon a time, there was a young woman who fancied she had two heads. One was hers, the other had been knocked off by a bullet through the brain. One day the other head had been removed. It was found, a perfect copy of the other head, lying in a drawer, where she had been hidden. The other head had had a hole punched through its skull and, somehow, had wound its way backwards, down the body until it finally emerged from the body, just a bit of meat and a bit of
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Once upon a time, there was a young man from a humble background, a father of two children. He had been a man of leisure and good health since his graduation, and yet in all his short life, he had acquired enough wealth to make him the possessor of over a million dollars.
The young man worked in high finance and he had built himself an enviable position, no mean achievement considering the limited means he had to employ, it was not surprising he lived like a prince among a throng of servants and subordinates
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Once upon a time, there was a young man who only talked to the moon, ate peanuts and drank banana kool-aid. He had a family of cats and had lived in a basement which was kept cool by a window. He loved his mother and sometimes, for no reason, he talked to his mother. She was so beautiful and strong that, after any conversation with her, a very small feeling would arise in his chest. Occasionally, this feeling would become a rage that left him sweating and mutilated in the shower, and
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Once upon a time, there was a woman in my life who hated driving. Everything was perfect. We were living in Europe and she hated driving in Europe. Every day she would try to drive through the tolls in Brussels, go through the toll station at Strasbourg, go to our lovely hotel in Luxembourg, and then go to the gym or to the grocery store or to the flower store. She rarely made it through those potholes, and rarely seemed to have enough patience to start the car. She hated parking. Every time
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Once upon a time, there was a young girl and a widower. His beloved was long dead, her bones scattered through the grass. The widow was a lovely woman and he loved her. During one of her long walks, the widow met this young man. In the twilight, they walked together. The path they traveled was so quiet and quiet that they couldn’t hear the trees’ leaves rustling like leaves of a dying tree. At the end of their stroll, the young man broke out into tears and they said
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Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Billy.
He was a normal, normal boy. He went to school. He went to his friends’ houses. He had what you might call a normal, healthy childhood. He loved cartoons, music, reading newspapers. Not all of them. But all of them, every single one.
One day, Billy had an idea. A flash, a single flash of a very brief thought. And it scared the heck out of him. He ran down to his
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Once upon a time, there was a man who loved the outdoors like a son.
To this day he holds a deep affection for the Grand Canyon of Arizona, where he’s spent many of his weekends off, hiking, camping, and climbing.
He’s also incredibly passionate about hiking, photography, photography equipment, hiking booties, hiking boots, and hiking bootie knives.
The man, whose last name was Zirker, also seemed to have a heart of gold. He told CNN
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Once upon a time, there was a boy. And a very young girl. And an elderly girl. And their guardian. And they were summoned to a city to work on a new machine. Now he was just another boy; he could have been hired for any job in the place. But he was different – he had better skills.
She had looked up at him, and smiled. He had seen that smile so many times before on a woman before. That smile was friendly and welcoming and sure of its friendliness. It
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Once upon a time, there was a whale. He was not a very attractive one, and his species was quite rare. But he was quite friendly, and his presence had in fact been responsible for putting me on the path to music.
The whale got me started in the ways and means of being an artist. I wasn't all that smart when I first arrived at the Y in 1985. From a young age, I was determined to be an actor, so I left school rather early to pursue the dream. My ambition to
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Once upon a time, there was a princess who wanted nothing more than to be an ordinary princess. She did everything the way she thought the roles should be done. She sent her petitions to the kingdom all over to prove what kind of princess she really was. She was given everything she asked for with the exception of one thing; at times, she got rejected. Her petition was dismissed the moment her father asked her why she was so desperate to get what she deserved.
The princess was very unhappy. She was angry with her father
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Once upon a time, there was a college grad I really admired. Even back then, I wasn’t worried about how long it would take her to get out of my head. In truth, I honestly had no idea how long her car would take to get from one end of my campus to the other. Of course, at times, I spent all my time worrying about that, too. But I never really thought that it would work.
She always had things working her way back from wherever she was going. Last
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Once upon a time, there was a man with a very large beard. His name was Ralf. He was obsessed with getting his beard full of beery beard grease, or dew, and he did it by either pulling the beard hairs backwards, or upside down, or doing his best with both. In between his work, he was also obsessed with talking rubbish about how great he was, and how different people were to him. He was a man that did things on a scale far more grand than we could ever understand, which
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Once upon a time, there was a boy called King Solomon. And when a certain little lion went to King Solomon's palace (about to be destroyed by the lion's claw), King Solomon asked him, "Did your mother and your father sit together in this high place, that your mother was the daughter of one of these kings?" The lion answered, "Your mother did sit together; so it can be no wonder that your mother was the daughter of one of these kings." So Solomon built his palace in the high place over against the
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Once upon a time, there was a writer named John Lennon and he was just another, simple-minded American teenager, who was, by all appearances, a teenager, and he threw the Beatles a gala bash at a flat in 1962.
On 12th December 1962, Lennon was a little boy in New York, at the height of his fame. And on this particular night, he was standing in the music department of his middle school, and watching his friends get on the “Beatles’ bus”
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Once upon a time, there was a girl in rural Alabama who was haunted by the legend of a tall, angry woman, the woman who would come at night and scream at the moon for her missing daughter. The woman called her the Moon Woman because it was the moon that gave her daughter to the spirit world—at least that’s what the girl had been told. Even though that legend was hard to refute, the girl never took her up on the offer, because her grandma had a thing about the old woman. So whenever
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Once upon a time, there was a prince who had no enemies. He roamed the land and lived a simple life that allowed him to appreciate that he is insignificant.
The curse came when those who had known him for a long time came there, but he always managed to keep his chin high, hiding his emotions, and making the most of his situation. One day, the prince was attacked at home, and he was able to save his mother. He was taken to court, but he never learned of this curse, and
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who lived north of the equator who saw everything through a glass darkly. And she lived in a place called Patua, or Old Patua.
Tall and dark as a palm tree, she was one of several matriarchals who wore a tight set of leather bracelets called tatoo and a gold ring with two triangles of gold, a stone with two gems on it, and rings and bracelets hanging all down her arm. She had a small dog called
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Once upon a time, there was a science fiction writer with the following personal tale to tell.
He was one of us, and therefore known as the Human-Island. From time to time he had the opportunity to travel to other worlds like us – some of them planets that might once have had inhabitants such as ourselves. He met aliens, often from different worlds, to talk with them about their own lives, what they had become through age and hardship, and the different cultures and races that had evolved to the point they were
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Once upon a time, there was a certain man who had a rather unusual name – Sir Bernard de Carcasson. If it had not been for this name, I would not have been allowed inside the building for fear of causing a scene, but if it was Sir Bernard who had started the trouble that made his name, I would have been dragged outside. This is just a piece of a real adventure that happened in the year of 1989. Sir Bernard de Carcasson was, and still is, an Army officer, and
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from datasets import load_dataset
model_name, beta, length = 'EleutherAI/gpt-neo-1.3B', '0.0', '20'
ds = load_dataset('cs-giung/toxic-story', data_files=f'data/{model_name}/beta{beta}-length{length}.jsonl')
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