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First love.
Those two words conjure so much possibility in the young and stoke memories in the young-at-heart. So much excitement. So much hope. There’s nothing more compelling than new love, nothing like that first fierce falling. First love often comes sudden and sweet, hitting like a breathless dagger, sharp with longing.
Sarah Collier learns at fifteen the sorrow of a hungry heart when she makes a fool of herself in front of the whole town of Twilight as she tries to stop the man she loves from marrying another woman.
When I wrote that opening scene I thought of every teen who had ever loved amiss and in it I felt her shame. But unlike many of us, Sarah gets a second chance at her first love. It’s a romantic and enduring notion—the idea that first love never really dies—and I had a lot of fun exploring that in The First Love Cookie Club.
So what about you? Do you ever think about your first love? Are the memories happy or melancholy? Do you ever think, “what if”? Or did you marry your first love and live happily ever after? Or if you’ve yet to meet that first love, what are your favorite “first love” romance stories?
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First love: I was in high school and fell in love with my girlfriend’s cousin…a guy in the Navy. We dated when he was in town, and I asked him to my prom. Right before the prom, he called and said he didn’t think he could come. I was so upset…and my parents decided I had to go so my brother would go with me! Upset and embarrassed, I agreed to go.
I didn’t know that my sailor had called to say he would be there…my family kept it a secret. When he showed up, I was angry, happy, and confused at the same time!
We went to the prom and had a wonderful time. We spent the next day with friends and our parting kiss was magical.
For some strange reason, I never heard from him again…no call, letter, nothing. I was brokenhearted that my first love experience turned sour…and I never knew why. Even his cousin (my friend) couldn’t get an answer from him.
sure I think of my first love every now and then; someone other than me had a hand in breaking us up. I have wondered about what would have happened if we had kept on dating and so on.
AAhh yes first love ,Met him at a high school track meet. Sometimes I do wonder where he is today and if he has kids and is doing well and happy. Then I think of another high school crush and how just as I was about to get married in college, he moved back to town and showed interest, that one I think what if. I try not to think of the what if’s because then I would not have the kids I have now.
Zina
My first love had enlisted in the air force prior to meeting me, and was scheduled to go to basic training camp two weeks after we started seeing each other. We maintained a long distance relationship for a while, but I was 18 and in college, and I was too young. I broke up with him when he started hinting at engagement rings. I always wonder how things would have turned out if we had stayed together…
I was 17, and I saw my first love on July 4th, I still remember the moment I saw him standing there. I was in the car with my mother and I looked at her and told her I was going to marry him! She told me “I don’t even know him” LOL Well for 2 weeks and 2 days I “searched” for him… LOL it wasn’t until an evening I was going to the store, and I saw him in front of his house. I stopped to talk to him (something I wouldn’t have normally done) We talked and then we started to date on July 24th. We got married 2 months later on October 5th. We have now been married for 23 years, with 3 beautiful girls! (Something I found out in about my 10th year of marriage, he told me that apparently he saw me when I was “searching” for him, he was with a friend and he told his friend… he wanted to get to know me!) So I believe we are meant to be with each other… Neither of us planned to get married at a young age…. We did but we don’t know how we did…because it went so fast… no one can remember who ask the other in hand of marriage…. But it doesn’t matter because we love each other and will till death do us part.
Cookies would make it sweeter each month!
I had a wonderful first love. I wanted to marry him even though I was only 15 when it ended. We stayed friends and then got back together and it didn’t end so well. I always wished we would have stayed friends. But he was a great boyfriend and I had a wonderful first love experience. I’ll never forget it, But I met my true love on my 16th birthday and two months later we had are first date and the dates never ended! We’ve never spent a day apart since Sept 7, 1989 and now we just had our 18th wedding anniversary. I feel so blessed to have found someone so wonderful so young. We’re still in Love and are best friends too. Life with Jeff is so easy. because we just never get tired of each other and we never fight. It’s just so good! I’m so looking forward to the day he can retire and we can travel around the country in an RV and be together 24/7! Thanks for letting me share my love story.
I was a HS drill team senior & very shy. He was a football player, popular, with a “posse.” He approached me, started walking me to my classes, & every where I went one of his buddies was near. It was football season, we couldn’t go to the games together but he did drive me home. I guess I didn’t meet his “standards” because on the Monday after the last game I turned from my locker & there he was walking with another girl, known to be more “amiable.”
For years, the words “football player”
served me as expletives!
Pat Cochran
Ironic that you would say Unanswered Prayers Lori! Because my husband and I had 2 wedding songs. One was 2 Sparrows in a Hurricane and the other was Unanswered Prayers. He was praying that his ex girlfriend would move back to Michigan to be with him. I was praying that I could move back to New York to be with the one who broke my heart. And then miracle of miracles we found each other…so we have considered Unanswered Prayers our song ever since.
my realy first love was my first husband
but i had some one who i had befor him and i was in hs can got drafted to the millatary and then when he would come to vist he bring me flower and then my mom bribe her
and then we took all the family to show and pizza well he was gone i found out i was b\pregent and then he got up set and never talk to me because of my little brother and danny always went to see gram till she died and was at the furneal and the family did not know who he was but he said he love gram so much that he was sorry he and i did not stay toghter
Ah, my first love was my best friend Marc. We first met each other when I was about 15 and him one year older than me. Through high school we became best friends. It was that kind of friendship where we protected each other from everybody else. When I turned seventeen I started dating another guy from a different high school. I was already having problems with my boyfriend early in the relationship and his jealous issues with Marc were insane. Till one day when my boyfriend showed up at my friend’s house accusing me of cheating on him with Marc. Embarrassed and pissed off.. I broke it off with him in front of everybody. After he left I was just feeling kind of drained from the situation and wanted nothing more but to go home. Since I rode there with a friend I asked if she could take me home when Marc who was there also with a few friends intervened and said he would. The car ride home was really silent so when he pulled up to my house I wanted out of that car fast. Before I got out he grabbed my hand and pulled me closer for a kiss. Nothing was said between us but a goodnight. That night I knew I was indeed in love with my best friend. We never tried to date and lost touch after high school. He has two kids now with his fiancé and from time to time I think about the what if factor.