It seems like lately there is no shortage of novels about first loves resurfacing decades later in the lives of various female main characters.
And in real life, as well, people aren't shy about sharing their memories and experiences, especially about former high school sweethearts.
In the novel Always Something There To Remind Me Beth Harbison writes:
Everyone has a first love, one person they never completely got over, right? Picture yours. Because when you come down to it, it isn't really anything about the way they look that distinguishes them in your memory-hair color, physical shape, style. It can change all the time. It's the way you remember feeling when you looked at them.
In one book and a couple of articles I read on the subject of first loves and crushes, one common thought came up again and again in the minds of people wondering about that special person from long ago. It wasn't so much that they wanted to see them again or (worse!) leave a current relationship in some weird hope they could rekindle 'that old magic.'
The thought was this: that they hoped (especially when they had no way of knowing for sure) that former love, or even just that former crush, was somewhere, somehow, happy and healthy.
Call me corny, but I couldn't agree more.
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