By the time I had toured the entire shop, noting each and every thing that had once belonged to the life I had formerly known, I was in tears.
Twenty years ago when I traveled from Hanoi, south along the spine of the country, to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, I was astounded by the way the war had been willfully forgotten: people I met did not want to talk about it.
When Rebecca Johnson said that pre-eclampsia was formerly called toxemia, I was stunned.
As a family-services supervisor working in Stamford Superior Court (and formerly in New Haven), I was dismayed that the article about divorce did not more thoroughly go into what family-services counselors in Connecticut courts do.
"Back in 1995 we teamed up with UNICEF and Sir Roger to launch Check Out for Children™ at The Park Tower Knightsbridge, formerly Sheraton Park Tower, where I was general manager.
"At first, I obviously didn't advertise that I was formerly incarcerated, because I was meeting people who needed to feel like they could rely on me," he recalled.
I was formerly devoted to Ruby Woo, but it clashed with a red Perspex Tatty Devine necklace I'd just bought.
I was formerly a real estate investor and I see the fear and division this law has created in the communities where I worked.
I was formerly owned by a young man with an anger-management disorder that was so serious he needed to be institutionalized.
And so when Prince changed his name to a symbol, told Warner Brothers to go to hell, wrote the word "slave" on his cheek and became the Artist Formerly Known As Prince, I was terrified for him – and absolutely thrilled.
