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  • She's just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat.

    Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner: Book summary 2010

  • Those for whom the term "Girl Group" conjures long-gone images of bouffant hairdos, crinoline and eyeliner might consider a visit on Saturday to the Damrosch Park bandshell, where Lincoln Center will continue its Out of Doors concert series.

    You Would Sing Too If It Happened to You Bruce Bennett 2011

  • She brushes the images of that long-gone day from her souls as though they were cobwebs.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • For those who take their iron pumping seriously, however, these bootlegged presentations help keep a long-gone pioneer in bodybuilding media alive forever.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009

  • The balance between present and past shifted, the images of those long-gone days growing clearer in the eye of her souls.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • “And to the long-gone craftsman who made you, may his ghost smile in return for our gratitude.”

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • The changing landscape of standup in the UK, since those long-gone days when Hamburg was a sought-after gig, is nowhere more apparent than on television.

    Alan Davies: Television, standup and me 2011

  • Midnight chocolate cake at the long-gone stand at Renninger's flea market, Kutztown, PA

    One For The Table: My Food List One For The Table 2011

  • Midnight chocolate cake at the long-gone stand at Renninger's flea market, Kutztown, PA

    One For The Table: My Food List One For The Table 2011

  • Released in 1981, it's like the last Hollywood movie of the 1960s, in which the aspirations and ideals of that long-gone decade finally soured irrevocably on its dazed, burnt-out survivors.

    Cutter's Way is a cinematic masterpiece 2011

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