We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it.

Geoffrey Madow, Mr. Reilly's longtime friend, was asked during a break in the music if the long-ago events now seem dream-like.

But what if, even at a late stage, your emotions relating to those long-ago events and people change?

"THE whole story was full of mistakes," decides young Tom Warren in the moments following his father's suppertime account of some long-ago event.

But it was also a signal that the penalty phase of the trial, which had included pronouncements from doctors and descriptions of long-ago events, had changed course.

Between long pauses, and struggles to reconstruct long-ago events, she spoke in a tentative, whispery voice, with the slight accent of her native Prague.

That long-ago event still haunts me.

It was like hearing about the long-ago events in Missoula: Is that all there is?

Reading the reports, one is struck by the triviality of the long-ago events at issue - and by the detachment and clarity with which they are examined.

The police and the courts have rejected the alibi as well-intention, but clouded by individual recollections of long-ago events.