first love

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Even decades later, Jean Dornan, the protagonist of Julia Langbein’s smart, poignant and involving novel “Dear Monica Lewinsky,” can’t recollect her own first love in tranquility.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

McCann's first love was football and, despite being an avid Toffee, she played for Liverpool before an ankle injury forced her retirement in 2010.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

And his first love has never forgotten him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"He was her first love and we still cannot believe it as there was no burial, the body was not recovered."

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Then and there she renounced all other ambitions and went back to her first love, the stage.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith