first love

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Each is centered around her first love: her hometown of Tijuana, and its essential place in her journey.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

“You have to reinvent yourself. I’m going back to my first love, which is building products and serving customers.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

During the BBC interview, Gumbley also shared his first love letter home to his "sweetheart" Peggy who later became his wife.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

The flowers were painstakingly hand-sewn onto the fabric by Claudia Vazquez, a 43-year-old Zapotec Indigenous woman who told AFP she had nearly given up on embroidery, her first love.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

She is said to have been Apollo’s first love.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton