And they called it puppy love--do you remember your first love?

[debm55]

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Edit--it can be doggy or human. Mine was when I was 18, we were engaged. Didn't work out, I called it quits. I found him on FaceBook. He married the Homecoming Queen and head cheerleader. That was in 2016 and he was a true blue trumper. Still think of him in our youth.

[LakeArenal]

1. Yes and we remained good friends.

I went to his wedding and they came to ours.

Hello Doug W. wherever you are now.

[debm55]

4. Lake, very sweet.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Yes, saw him at my 56th. class reunion. Started school with him at age 6.

[debm55]

5. Did you see any reminders of him as a younger kid?

[sinkingfeeling]

13. yep, he still has his curly hair.

[Beakybird]

3. Ah yes! It WAS puppy love 💕. And her nose is still cold and wet.

[debm55]

6. That is too funny.

[woodsprite]

7. Yup! If you mean the human kind....

He just came downstairs to fix a sandwich, let me know his afternoon Zoom mtg schedule, and help me with a javascript question. Been married going on 38 yrs

If you mean the real pupper kind, I've had 2 beagles and 2 german shepherds in my lifetime. I'm trying to wear hubby down on the idea of adopting another. Our Noelle passed away at the age of 14 at the beginning of Covid. I think I'm beginning to see some progress!

[debm55]

23. woodsprite, I hope you get a pupper. Been married for 38-you are very blessed.

[Sneederbunk]

8. "It must have been puppy love

because she is a dog now." Reggie Van Gleason III.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. you never forget your first love.

There is something about that new awareness of how you can feel about another person.

I have such fond memories of my high school first love. We stayed friends until he passed a couple of years ago.

The Big One, the one that got away just slammed into me like The Godfather's thunderbolt
I am embarrassed somewhat to admit that he has lived rent free in a tiny corner of my brain for far too long. He died last March. We actually knew each other from the time we were fairly young and his brother and I are still great friends.

The love of my life is my husband though.

[debm55]

24. yellowdog, you are so lucky that you remained friends. When I contacted my first love, he told me we

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had dated only 4 times and he saw no use to discuss wheere our lives have taken us. PS we were engaged.

[frogmarch]

10. Yes!

I was 4 and-a-half, and Sonny was 5 when my mom taught kindergarten to us and a boy named Dwight at our home in post WWII Tokyo. Later in the States, my mom taught middle school geography.

Sonny is on the right in the photo. I'm the middle kid, and Dwight is on the left.

[debm55]

25. frogmarch, what a beautiful picture. Is Dwight your first love?

[frogmarch]

37. Sonny was.

He was adorable and also the only boy I knew who wouldn't put his arms out and run around pretending to be an airplane, yelling, "Bombs over Tokyo!"

[debm55]

41. frog, have you ever seen or followed up on Sonny?

[frogmarch]

48. I looked

at the alumni page of the school we both attended in first grade (1948), but his name (Sonny Humphrey) wasn't there. I don't know where in the States his family was from, or even if Sonny was his given name, or a nickname. The names of any other kids I remembered weren't there either. We all were the first American military kids to attend school at Yoyogi.

Sonny would be about 80 now, so I'm hesistant to really delve into it in case he's gone now.

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. I met mine

at a church youth event when I was 15 and he was almost 17. He was from a little town 35 miles away so it was "long distance" after that weekend, but the intensity of that weekend was amazing. The next year at the same event things did not go well, but later we patched it up. The next year he enlisted in the army and I was devastated, but we started writing lots of letters. Lots of them. He came home on leave when I was a freshman in college and we almost eloped but didn't. Long story. When his deployment to Germany was extended by a year it was devastating again. Then he was discharged finally, but before I could get home to see him (I was still away at school), he and his entire family picked up stakes and moved to California. Life intervened but he kept writing me and begging me to come out there. Finally, the summer I was 21, I took what little money I had and bought a bus ticket to LA. I spent 6 weeks there and we actually got engaged; he put a down payment on a ring. But I ran out of money and had to return to Wisconsin, and when I got back my head was clear....I realized we were just too different to make it, and I wasn't ready to settle down, so I wrote him and broke the engagement. But wait....two years later, when I was engaged to my (unlamented) first husband, I came home to my apartment to find a series of repeated messages on the communal phone from him. At least I assumed they were from him, as they were from an operator in LA. But I never could reach him. Sometimes I wonder if things might have been different; we both went on to marry other people that year, and both marriages ended very badly.

Postscript--we are still friends. Many years later he tracked me down. He was in the area and came to see me. My daughter, then 8, fell in love with him. We were both married to others by then. Now we are old and still remember each other's birthdays. I know it wouldn't have worked out. He plays golf and our politics are different. But I still care for him. Always will.

[debm55]

26. Jilly, that is so nice that he remembered you. How sweet.

[snowybirdie]

12. Yes

And he's sitting right here.

[debm55]

27. snow, good for you. I like stories with happy endings.

[malthaussen]

14. Frankly, I don't understand why someone would forget.

Seems a pretty monumental thing to me.

-- Mal

[debm55]

28. Well, when you have the girl that everyone wanted, I guess he found it easy. I still remember him.

[Doc_Technical]

15. Yes

Fourth Grade. Her name was Brenda.

[debm55]

29. Wow and you still remember her name?

[ironflange]

16. I sure do

I'm looking across the room at her, 46 years later.

[Luciferous]

21. Aww, that's so sweet!

[debm55]

30. iron, that is wonderful.

[debm55]

42. iron, what a sweet story.

[lastlib]

17. Yes. Sheila. Gorgeous girl in my French class....

I was a sophomore (high school), she was a senior. I had a god-awful crush on her, and I don't think she ever knew it. Only saw her a few times after she graduated, although she commuted to college riding with my sister.

Still think about her fondly occasionally.

[debm55]

31. Yes, for some of us memories will always be there.

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[blueknight73]

18. My first " crush "

Was Debbie in the 7th grade. Summer came and she moved. Fast forward 30 years and I discovered she was married to a work friend!

[debm55]

32. Did you remeet with her?

[blueknight73]

43. Yes I did,

We got a good laugh out of it and are still friends to this day

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. I remember, and now, if I smell "that" perfume, my pulse speeds up

Of course, it's only been about 60 years, so how could I forget so quickly?

[debm55]

33. They say that smell is the strongest smell to bring about memories.

[Luciferous]

20. Yep. I was 15, he was 18 and we were on

and off a few times. I looked him up maybe 5 years ago, he married a woman who looks a lot like me. He certainly has a type! 😂

[debm55]

34. Never met up with him?

[Luciferous]

36. No, I wasn't that interested in reconnecting. The last time I saw him was 20 years ago.

[Mr.Bill]

22. First grade in Catholic school.

Her name was Molly Donahue. I kissed her on the lips and the nuns lost their minds. They acted like I needed an exorcism or something.

I guess I just liked Irish girls. 35 years later I married one.

[debm55]

35. Mr. Bill --yes a sin of the flesh. LOL

[Mad_Dem_X]

38. I married him.

There was one other guy before him that I *thought* at the time I was in love with, but it just a one-sided infatuation. So I refuse to count that guy. The man I married was and is my first true love.

[debm55]

44. Mad. I would have to agree in a way with that. Chris was nice to me at the beginning. He drove to CA

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with his brother for 2 weeks, never called, never wrote. I was the art nerd, he was prince charming. But it changed and true love shouldn;t change over a two week period. When I found him on facebook, I was very happy. He told me he was divorced and living in Pittsburgh. So we made plans to meet up and have lunch. I brought alot of pictures from college, my husband and son to town. He never showed up. I called, wife answered the phone. He calls back and hissed at me like a snake. Said he only dated me 4 times and really didn't remember me. We were engaged. Told me if I called again he would have a restricitng order on me. I left town with my box of photos.I came home and erased him from my facebook and cried. My husband never has been mean to me. He is my angel. Yes, sometimes a first love can be so easy to get into especially my life at the time. And 18 was way too young to get married.But I occassionally think of Chris.Wonder how he is doing down in Florida(he is friends with my cousin, so I did get the scope on him) Thank you for letting me get it out.mine was at the end totally one sided.

[Mad_Dem_X]

51. ...

[Coventina]

39. I had a massive crush on the same kid from K-5th grade

Then, my family moved out of state and I never saw him again.

I Googled him, just for giggles a week or so ago.
I found a piece he wrote for his High School reunion!

He apparently is married to his high school sweetheart and he is all Jeebus-y.

Funny, because looking back on my elementary school memories, I would have SWORN he was gay.
He had the same BFF all those years and they were VERY physically affectionate with each other.
Held hands, sat in each other's laps, cuddled. No other boys did that, but they were ALWAYS like that.

I fully expected my Google search to reveal that he was living on Fire Island with that same guy and that they had adorable little fur babies.

[debm55]

45. Oh Coventina, that made me laugh so hard. When we met Chris was like a young James Taylor, today he

looks like an older JT-no hair. AND he is a trumper. Lives in Florida with the golden girl. Meow from me.

[womanofthehills]

40. He recently contacted me - found me on Facebook

He's been married 4 times, and he's a wealthy retired doc and a Republican. He lives right on the ocean. Even though I am with someone, he wanted to cheat on his 4th wife and get together. Gross!!

Actually, four old boyfriends are my Facebook friends - all married.

[debm55]

46. woman, I would stay away. He might be rich, but something is not right with having 4 wives. I posted

a story about mine up post. Mine is a trumper. One thing I did learn from him is that they had no kids as Homecoming Queen/Cheerleader did know what was the best time of the year to get "fat" --her words not mine. Perfect couple

[Skittles]

47. yes....Alan

In England, over 50 years ago ...... I was 14, he was 15....but when my dad became ill we returned to the States, and I never saw Alan again. A few years back I was able to find his sister online, but I also saw that their mum had just passed, so I held off and trying to contact them. Then a while later when I looked up his sister again, her daughter had just been killed in a car accident. I have not tried again.

[debm55]

49. Skittles, give it some time and try again. It so sad that every time you wanted to meet up with him,

something horrible happens. Best of luck to you Skittles and I hope everything works out, just to relax and have a conversation about what you two have done with your lives and were you are in your life's journey.

[Skittles]

50. it was so different back then

I was a GI brat and moved a lot, sometimes overseas - when I left, I never talked to those people again - it's different now with technology - heck, I wouldn't hear from my grandparents for years at a time - I would draw the outline of my hand on the back of snail mail to them so they could see me "growing"

[Chainfire]

52. I vividly remember my first trip to the land of love.

I was 14 and she let me kiss her in the back seat of the car when my sister was driving us home from a dance. I was in hog heaven. By 16 we were separated and I was on to my 2nd love and my first French kiss. I remember that like it was yesterday. Fast forward one year and I fell, head over heels for the girl that I would marry two years later. It will be 52 years married this Summer and I have never fallen out of love. I have never been tempted by another.

I was married the day I turned 19 and my wife was a couple of months past 17. We had to promise her Father and Mother that she would finish school. (She ended up with a masters degree, and a good professional career) everyone was betting on whether the marriage would last six months.

Life has been good to me.