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Maybe there’s a connection between firstness and lastness, so I’m constantly reconnecting with my time on “Dawson’s Creek” because every project that I end somehow recalls that to me.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023

But they are done swallowing a mythology of firstness that excludes them, along with fellow pioneers like Katherine Dunham, Debra Austin, Raven Wilkinson, Lauren Anderson and Aesha Ash.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021

There was a day when New York City was so smug, haughty and complacent about its firstness that Author Irvin Cobb thought the place possessed "absolutely not a trace of local pride."

From Time Magazine Archive

It knoweth no beginning, inasmuch as the First deriveth its firstness from It; and knoweth no end, for the Last oweth its lastness unto It.

From Selections From the Writings of the Báb by Báb

His beginning hath had no beginning other than His Own firstness and His end knoweth no end save His Own lastness.

From Selections From the Writings of the Báb by Báb