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Question:“On first love”

On first love

First love lasts not because that person was special but because you were new. The first words you learn are never forgotten. That belongs to you, not to them.

Take the memory back from that person and return it to yourself. Write three lines about who you were then. That person has passed; the you of that time is still here.

Sappho called love a sweet and bitter thing, a creature that cannot be fought. Her poem survives in torn pieces. So does first love.

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