first love

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She contrasts this with her first love in high school—a relationship, she says, that was “imperfect, messy, alive.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

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

But I also think “Wuthering Heights” made it OK to be weird and raw in romance, to dig into those strange animal feelings that first love can conjure.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 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

You would have thought that in time she would have got over her first love affair and found another love, but she did not.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck