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

Riakporhe, 36, only started boxing aged 19 and says football was his "first love" when he was growing up in south-east London.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 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

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

His fellow merchants had abandoned him, and his best friend had paid a fortune to hire the murder god of an accidental religion—Cid, who had been my first love.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri