I think it was the first time I experienced the incredible power of books.
I used to swim for fun but for the first time I experienced true bitterness.
"And that's the first time I experienced the Internet," he said.
But this was the first time I experienced the process from the opposite direction.
And for the first time, I experienced friendship with Americans of different racial backgrounds.
The first time I experienced Drake, it was as an absence.
"It was the first time I experienced the audience as an adversary," she said.
For the first time I experienced what would become customary: I hadn't even known what I wanted until Albert had created it.
For the first time I experienced how connected and interdependent I was on the people and natural world around me, something I had previously only intellectualised.
Surprisingly, the first time I experienced a close call, wry resentment flashed through me: so this is how it ends, dropping off a damn window ledge.
