Subject: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Leadbelly Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:46 PM Which was the first name of your first love? Do you still remember her/him? My little girl was (and hopefully is) named Martina. And, although not requested, her second name was Jungverdorben! That's absolutely true. But the meaning (= young depraved) didn't characterize this lovely, brown-eyed girl by no means. Good luck to her! Must confess, that I got this simple idea for a thread after reading about "first bought record" ( music section above). |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Alice Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:49 PM James Doyle highschool he had an excellent tenor voice we were matched up in the chorus of the Mikado |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Wesley S Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:53 PM Sandee - married one of my best friends from high school. And that's fine by me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Leadbelly Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:01 PM Wesley S, seems that you're a lucky one! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: artbrooks Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:23 PM Jennifer...and we'll be married 38 years next month. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Bill D Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:26 PM What if she wasn't Christian? Do you mean given name? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: artbrooks Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:28 PM Point well taken...and she isn't...but she is still my love. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: John MacKenzie Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:33 PM First ever, or first real love? Can't remember my first, but I can remember the girl I loved most. G |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: PoppaGator Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:34 PM Does unrequited count? I had a few of them before any actual relationship, and then another couple of false starts before finding someone to stay with forever. There are a few names I'll never forget, but whoever was first was not all that memorable. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Leadbelly Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:35 PM Yeah, Bill D! Because of you I'm going to throw away my dictionary (Collins). Sorry because of being of german origin. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: MBSLynne Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:37 PM First ever was apparently called Frankie. I was three and he was nine! I don't remember him but my family tells me about it. First teenage love Ray. I was 13 and he was 15. I got a message from him through Friends reunited and we now exchange e-mails. He sent a photo. Looks a little different from 40 years ago! Love Lynne |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Leadbelly Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:45 PM Would be somewhat like a wonder if Ray doesn't have some changes after such a long time. All of us should have a short look into a mirror... That't true, isn't it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Fran Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:50 PM Keith, don't know where he is now, even hearing people called keith hurts. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Wesley S Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:51 PM When we think about these first loves I hope we're also enjoying what we call a "spousal appreciation moment" |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: John MacKenzie Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:56 PM Thread creep Wes ? :) G |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Donuel Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:56 PM So you want us to kiss and tell? ok it was Priscilla. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Big Mick Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:57 PM Rosie McGinnis. She was, and is, one of the prettiest people I have ever seen. Laughing eyes, beautiful hair and skin, and a charming Irish personality. In the sixth grade we used to walk home sometimes. She married a great guy, a Union Rep in the area, and I ran into her in a local shopping establishment. Some 45 years later she is still gorgeous, still charming, and was accompanied by a daughter that is just like her Mom. All that, and Irish American too. And her Dad was a musician named Mugsy McGinnis, who owned a pawn shop and musical instrument repair. All the best, Mick |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:06 PM I can't remember the name of the first one...I started falling in love about the time I learned to walk, and there was this little girl in first grade, but I can't remember her name. I do remember who I fell in love with in the 3rd Grade, though. Diane Powell. She was the daughter of some local farmer and was a grade or two older than me. I used to follow her around in a state of adoration, and observe everything she said and did. Then we moved to the USA, and Diane was lost to me forever! (sob!) I also had an art teacher I fell in love with in Junior High. Miss Delavan. Another "older woman". She was glorious. Then she got married and became (shudder!) "Mrs Pinkney". Another dream destroyed! Her beauty and style deteriorated very noticeably in the next year or two after that...proof that marriage to a man named "Mr Pinkney" is a very bad idea, just as I had suspected! ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: kendall Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:06 PM Barbara |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Big Mick Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:20 PM Wow, LH, you mentioning the first grade made me remember the little girl I thought was the berries in the fourth grade......Pam Fitzgerald. Then there was Linda Hartley in the fifth..... and all of them Irish ..... I guess you can guess what kind of neighborhood I grew up in. Mick |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Becca72 Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:34 PM My first 'crush' was on Danny Vance in kindergarten First "real" relationship was Christopher |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Georgiansilver Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:45 PM I remember all my first loves.....but Teresa Russell stands out amongst them, as the one I loved most but lost quickly. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: GUEST,Dani Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:53 PM "the berries"?! What the heck is that, Mick? Did you make that UP? Thomas. Lived next door. Big crush, never told. Dani |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: katlaughing Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:54 PM Kelly and Shannon Johnson - they lived across the street. Kelly was my age; Shannie was one year older. They were my best friends from the time we were in diapers. Kelly and I even kissed.:-) First real love I was thirteen and Arthur Martinez was sixteen. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:54 PM You were in love with a "Pam" too back then, Mick? Gad! I was desperately in love for about 5 or 6 years with a girl named Pam Ford...Junior High through High School. She was WAY outta my league at the time, but she gave me a pencil once in Grade 7 or 8 after I'd helped her with some math problems (I was "the brain" in my class), and I treasured it for years afterward till it disappeared one day when my mother took it upon herself to clean and organize my room and I wasn't there to guard the sacred pencil. AARGHHHH!!!!!!!!! Pam (Pamela) is a name you don't hear much anymore, it seems. When I first heard it in full, I thought her name was "Pamelin"...and that would make a great name, I think. Even better than Pamela. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Bert Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:56 PM Now you're not going to believe this her name was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cherry! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: SINSULL Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:02 PM Louie but I had a crush on his older brother and just discovered that he never married. Wonder if he was the one? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Rowan Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:15 PM First crush; Sandra First inspiration to write endless love letters (with 300 miles' separation we were were definitely GI); Heather First experience of exaltation (with her as my dancing partner we made onlookers weep, a la Torvil & Dean); Marilyn First experience of desolation (from the outset I knew she wanted to become a Carmelite; Miriam First experience of utter inadequacy (I wasn't anywhere near Jewish enough for her mother); Rachel First experience of complete fulfilment (I couldn't even remember what it was like to have been single); Yvonne Fond memories all and each, in their way, was a "first love". Cheers, Rowan |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: The Sandman Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:18 PM Sherga. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Rapparee Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:36 PM Esther. The same as my mother. Come to think of it, the first woman I loved WAS my mother.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:56 PM Yeah, that had occurred to me too, Rapaire. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Sorcha Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:10 PM Robin. Summer music camp....oh my. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Peace Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:13 PM I see no one here has named their hands. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Richard Bridge Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:20 PM Hmm. As a considerable but disrespected English thinker (Prince Charles) who only got a 2II in history once said "Love - whatever that is". Can we go for something measurable, like "first fuck"? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: John MacKenzie Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:20 PM You are the first Peace. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:24 PM Hell, Peace, I was falling in love with little girls (and older women) long before it occurred to me to use my hands for anything.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Peace Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:26 PM Yeah. Right. I've heard that one before . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Peace Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:28 PM Geeze, Giok, I know. You tried it once and didn't like it, right? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: gnu Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:46 PM Or left? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Bill D Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:47 PM Well, ok then...given names. So many categories of 'first'... In 3rd grade there was beautiful Margaret H., daughter of a fire chief. She sat in front of me....and I actually once dipped her long, golden curls in the inkwell! (yes..it DOES show my age. I once held the job of 'inkwell filler'....) When I was about 12, I visited my Uncle in San Diego when a niece of my aunt was also visiting. Her name was Virginia, and I had my first serious crush. We acted like kids for 2 weeks..joking and going to the zoo. Mooned over her for 2 years, even though I only knew her for 2 weeks. In high school, there was Susan...one of the most popular girls in school. By this time, I knew what fantasies were for! I never even attempted to ask her out... Years later, someone who knew her told someone who knew me, that she had said.."Oh, yes...Bill D....I wonder why he never asked me for a date?" arrrggghh. Finally, in 1st year college, there was Kay. We dated, and we married. It lasted 6 years. *shrug* |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Big Al Whittle Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:09 PM Trish I used to fancy a girl name Trish She had long brown hair she was quite a dish I was hypnotised by her big blue eyes And her little mini-skirt that went swish-swish-swish Trish Trish, she was a communist I was an anarcho/syndicalist/ marxist/lenninist Trish Trish, she liked Chairman Mao But I could not get keen somehow I said Trish - we can sort this out dialectically Even tho you find me repulsive sexually I got a little red book and a chinese hat She said don't bother al, you still look a twat Still I fancied that girl named Trish With her long brown hair she was quite a dish I was hypnotised by her big blue eyes, her creamy white thighs And a little mini-skirt goin' - swish-swish-swish Some men dream to enslave the world Some are enslaved by the love of a girl Stalin and Mao trish and me Keats and fanny, La Belle Dame sans merci (lead break) Trish I hope you found a niche With a house and a car and a satellite dish Deep in in my heart the Internationale is still played And we are storming the barricades I fancied a girl named Trish With her long brown hair she was quite a dish I was hypnotised by her big blue eyes And her little mini-skirt that went swish-swish-swish |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Amos Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:27 PM Second grade! Patty, who lived on Wolfpit Road; she had blue eyes and light brown hair. A |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Bat Goddess Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:47 PM Hmm...maybe Ernst. I don't remember his last name. I was three or four years old and he was probably about the same and would come over and ask me out -- "let's outside going and cowboy geh-playen" or "indiana geh-playen". It was a long time ago on 47th Street in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- just down the street from Pershing School and not too far in the other direction to the Wood, WI Old Soldiers Home and the old Milwaukee County Stadium, home of the Milwaukee Braves (stolen from Boston and then stolen from us by Atlanta). Second probably was Timmy Walschlager, of the freckles, in second grade. He gave me a little white (probably plastic) Pegasus charm that was mislaid about 50 years ago. Linn |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Sorcha Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:38 PM Well, there was Gene.....but he was MUCH more of a 'buddy'. Lived across the alley and we'd stay up half the night either trying to play chess or messing with my telescope. YES, really, the telescope!!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Mrrzy Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:39 PM My first love wasn't a Christian. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: kendall Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:53 PM Ah yes, Barbara. My first love. I went into the Coast Guard in 1953, and while in boot camp, I wrote to her several times. The last time I wrote a letter to her, and one to my sister. Yup, I mixed up the envelopes so she got my sister's letter and my sister got Barbara's letter. My sister thought it was funny. I never heard from Barbara agan. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Feb 08 - 10:32 PM Hey, Peace, I came across this excerpt in an article about love and sex that explains perfectly what I was trying to explain awhile back there. "What's love got to do with it? Sexual arousal and romantic love activate quite distinct areas of the brain—and love is clearly the more powerful. The latter turns on dopamine-rich regions linked with motivation, and falling in love is not unlike the rush of taking cocaine, hence the addictiveness of a new crush, and the withdrawal-like symptoms of love lost." That's it exactly. I was falling in love with little girls back in the toddler and primary school days, and I was not experiencing any sexual arousal at that time. I didn't really even think about sexual arousal or have any interest in it until sometime around maybe age 13 or 14...but boy did I ever think about romantic love a lot!!! It was an entirely emotional thing to me as a kid, not a sexual thing, and the quote above explains the difference. Now when I became a teenager, of course, then the sexual aspects started getting mixed up with the romantic aspects, and that's when life really started to get confusing...boy, oh, boy, did it ever get confusing. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: mrdux Date: 21 Feb 08 - 10:42 PM Karen. . . and Laura. sort of simultaneously. third grade (i was precocious and indecisive). both Jewish -- does that still count? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Bee Date: 21 Feb 08 - 10:47 PM Michael. He gave me a bouquet of apple blossoms and kissed me under an apple tree when I was ten and he was eleven. His parents moved away that summer, I never saw him again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Feb 08 - 01:13 AM First in childhood was a boy named Kent. First in adulthood goes unnamed because in his own obscure way he became rather famous, and married someone else. SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Uncle Phil Date: 22 Feb 08 - 01:21 AM Virginia. Coincidence? Perhaps. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Metchosin Date: 22 Feb 08 - 01:22 AM George. I stole glances at his back instead of closing my eyes, while we stood to say The Lord's Prayer in Grade 1. I liked the shape of his bum. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: KT Date: 22 Feb 08 - 01:59 AM Kendall, you didn't ! I thought that kind of thing only happened in chat rooms! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Slag Date: 22 Feb 08 - 03:07 AM Her name was Linda. I proposed and she accepted. Fortunately I had a wise Aunt who explained that I would need a job and a place to live. I was five at the time. Then there was: Sharon Kathy Diane another Linda When puberty hit names weren't too important and it gets all kinda hazy until my first real love, Georgia. Alas, there will always be that one. I think there was a C&W song with that as a title. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: theleveller Date: 22 Feb 08 - 03:23 AM Irene. But we just called her mum. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: MBSLynne Date: 22 Feb 08 - 03:31 AM Yes of course you are right Leadbelly. We all change and forty years is a lot of changing, but when I got the message from him I hadn't seen him since he was 15. The picture in my head was of a skinny guy with a mop of red hair, Beatle boots and a pink and white striped shirt with a black tie about half and inch thick. Though obviously I knew in my head that he would have changed, it still came as a shock to see a man in his 50s. I wouldn't have recognized him at all. He says I still have the same beautiful smile. :-) Love Lynne |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: The PA Date: 22 Feb 08 - 06:51 AM Infants/Junior School - Roger Cox Met him again late in grammar school, we would both have been about 17. All the upper 6th girls fell instantly in love with him - he was georgeous! Couldn't help thinking 'I was there first girls!' Ha ! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: kendall Date: 22 Feb 08 - 07:39 AM KT, yes I did. No joke. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: GUEST,Bitter Taste Date: 22 Feb 08 - 07:43 AM First girl I ever went out with was one Maureen; a born-again Christian who pretended butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. Once we'd split up she let me know that she'd spent a couple of years before the "born-again" bit doing the "sleeping around" bit with virtually everyone at high school and a couple of married guys. I spent most of the next ten years running away from any involvement with any woman who gave any indication of any interest in me at all. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Paco Rabanne Date: 22 Feb 08 - 08:07 AM Ewan...errh... I'll get my coat! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Catherine Jayne Date: 22 Feb 08 - 08:29 AM His name was Adam and I was 16 and he was 17 we dated for 2 years and I was devestated when we went our separate ways because he was at university and I was at music college at opposite sides of the country. He sang tenor and had a beautiful voice. He's now a lawyer and doing very for himself and we're still friends. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: jacqui.c Date: 22 Feb 08 - 09:54 AM Dave Smith - I can still remember the first kiss. I was thirteen. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Leadbelly Date: 22 Feb 08 - 02:12 PM MBSLynne, a lot of compliments to you and your appearance compared to the past! But most times the appearance of people is going to change the older they get. Need no wisdom to say this. Personally, I do think that this depends upon genetic predisposition and/or personal lifestyle. Sometimes it would be better not to meet a first love again. On the other hand, it's good to read about that Catherine Jayne (see above) and her first love are still good friends. Don't know how Adam lookes like now and how many years have been in between. But to have friendly relationsship to a first love: that's great. I don't have. Manfred |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Dave Roberts Date: 22 Feb 08 - 02:26 PM Sheila. After she dumped me I couldn't listen to 'Sheila' by Tommy Row for quite a number of years. And it happened just before Christmas 1972, just after Elvis brought out 'Always On My Mind'. I wanted to die. But didn't, obviously. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Rog Peek Date: 22 Feb 08 - 02:47 PM Rosemary Pinchin. We were 5 or 6, she had pigtails and I think her dad read electricity meters. Rog |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Becca72 Date: 22 Feb 08 - 03:17 PM There was also Joshua Cornell in the 3rd grade. I knew it was true love when he gave me all his best scratch n sniff stickers... All the girls loved Joshua...blond hair and the bluest eyes I've ever seen...he moved away before 4th grade. :-( |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Riginslinger Date: 22 Feb 08 - 06:54 PM Ginger |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Big Al Whittle Date: 22 Feb 08 - 08:44 PM Trish I used to fancy a girl name Trish She had long brown hair she was quite a dish I was hypnotised by her big blue eyes And her little mini-skirt that went swish-swish-swish Trish Trish, she was a communist I was an anarcho/syndicalist/ marxist/lenninist Trish Trish, she liked Chairman Mao But I could not get keen somehow I said Trish - we can sort this out dialectically Even tho you find me repulsive sexually I got a little red book and a chinese hat She said don't bother al, you still look a twat Still I fancied that girl named Trish With her long brown hair she was quite a dish I was hypnotised by her big blue eyes, her creamy white thighs And a little mini-skirt goin' - swish-swish-swish Some men dream to enslave the world Some are enslaved by the love of a girl Stalin and Mao trish and me Keats and fanny, La Belle Dame sans merci (lead break) Trish I hope you found a niche With a house and a car and a satellite dish Deep in in my heart the Internationale is still played And we are storming the barricades I fancied a girl named Trish With her long brown hair she was quite a dish I was hypnotised by her big blue eyes And her little mini-skirt that went swish-swish-swish http://bigalwhittle.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/trish.mp3 |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: harpmolly Date: 22 Feb 08 - 10:57 PM Mason. And his birthday was September 9th. ;) I was twelve. (Good Lord, was that just over twenty years ago?) We were at my aunt's house in Lake Tahoe for summer vacation, and my cousin Pete brought a couple of his friends up with him. They both asked me to go steady, and I had to choose. (Feast or famine, baby...story of my life. It helped that I was the only girl around for miles. ;)) Anyway, we fished for crawdads under the dock (and I think he would've kissed me then if Pete and Kenny hadn't kept poking their heads under to see if we were kissing *eyeroll*). He did finally kiss me, twice. When he left he gave me his teddy bear and left the Queen of Hearts playing card in my suitcase for me to find. Our song was "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. P.S. A few years ago I googled him out of pure curiosity, and actually found him! I dropped him a quick email, to which he replied, "Wow, great to hear from you! I was just telling my wife about you the other day." :) OK, I must go listen to cheesy 80s music now. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Barry Finn Date: 23 Feb 08 - 12:38 AM My first was a christian & I still remember her name (slurp-rise), I was just 17. My 1st love came a yr later (pun not intended), she was Jewish & was my sister's best friend, still is, we bumb into each other quite often. She still looks the same, I don't. She's the cause of me being a folkie, she turned me. Hell of a banjo player too. Her name's no one business. She may lurk here. Barry |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Barry Finn Date: 23 Feb 08 - 12:49 AM I might as well go on with a funny story about that 1st love of mine. As I said above. she & my sister are still best friends (after almost 30 yrs) & I still see her about quite often, mostly at local festivals that we both will perform at, so we do watch & support each others performance. She 1st met my wife when I was performing at a local festival, my sister came to see me & my wife was there so my sister sat with my wife. In comes 1st love & sits with my sister, next to my wife & they're all quite due to the performance while the clapping starts 1st love leans over to my wife, who she assumes know my sister but doesn't know who she is, & says "he was my 1st" my wifes leans towards her & says "he's my husband", I believe my sister started laughing 1st. My sister then introduces to the two of them to each other. They're both great women & think highly of each other too. I have to admire their taste in men. Barry |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Barry Finn Date: 23 Feb 08 - 12:50 AM Sorry, that's "almost 40 yrs later" I was trying to pretend to bee 10 yrs younger. Barry |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: harpmolly Date: 23 Feb 08 - 01:34 AM That is a GREAT story! LOL!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Feb 08 - 03:40 AM My first love was called Paul, though his real name was David. His dad was also David, so he got to use his second name. He was my best friends' brother, he was 15, I was 14 and it was a very hot, steamy summer. He was madly into watersports and skateboarding (the first time round, work out the year from that!), and swam like a fish. He went back to boarding school and we corresponded... but his parents decided they didn't like me and split us up, just before his birthday at Christmas. We met up again by pure chance, about 3 years later and it was all still there... my insides did the somersault thing, he was just the same gorgeous, caring and wonderful boy who thought I was beautiful. We arranged to meet up one weekend but he couldn't make it. I got a letter from his sister. He'd been windsurfing and had come up under his sail. He'd hit his head on the boom, suffered a fit and drowned. I still think of him, fairly often and I have his letters still... the day my sister ripped the stamps off them for 'a charity' was I think the day I finally realised I wouldn't cross the road to piss in her mouth if her teeth were on fire. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: harpmolly Date: 23 Feb 08 - 03:15 PM Liz...oh my God, that's just awful. I'm so sorry. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Leadbelly Date: 30 Jun 08 - 11:01 AM Any other nice/awful little stories??? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Ebbie Date: 30 Jun 08 - 11:38 AM Alvin was my first. An older guy, three years older than I, friend of my brother's. I agonized over him. I was 7 or so. Years later I dated him and confessed my early infatuation with him. He hadn't known; he had been infatuated with my older sister. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Irish sergeant Date: 30 Jun 08 - 01:34 PM MAry K. Was the first but the best is my wife Peggy. Neil |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Donuel Date: 30 Jun 08 - 01:46 PM Priscilla Stephanie Von Deiseldorfer |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Amos Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:05 PM I know I will never forget Snagglepuss, even though we were fated to live far apart. A |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Muswell Hillbilly Date: 30 Jun 08 - 03:31 PM Well I actually have a photograph of me and my first love (stop sniggering in the back there!) |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: CarolC Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:21 PM I don't think it could be called a "Christian" name. He was Jewish and his name, Arthur, appears to have a pre-Christian Keltic origin. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 30 Jun 08 - 04:52 PM Her name was Kezia. We had a brief encounter or two in the bushes back in the Old Country. I will never forget her. I don't think she was a Christian, exactly, but she sure knew how to raise Caine. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 30 Jun 08 - 05:44 PM My first love with a Christian name was Joanie, but my previous first love was Charlene--not her Christian name, but her first name. She was Jewish. I hope she is still alive and kicking and very happy. I last saw her in 1952 when we were in Jr. High School. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: SharonA Date: 30 Jun 08 - 06:00 PM Brian. Met him in kindergarten, where we fell head-over-heels for each other and were "married" by one of the other kids. We had a "daughter" (another classmate) named Susan. When I came back to school after summer break and started first grade, Brian was gone. I've never forgotten him, and the loss has affected my failed relationships with men ever since! |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Gurney Date: 30 Jun 08 - 06:30 PM Pamela. Might have been requited, too, if I hadn't been such a pillock. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 Jun 08 - 08:42 PM The first girl I really loved was named Sheranne. Never really got anywhere with her, just spent two years trying to talk her into ditching the guy she was "in love" with. She finally dumped him but I was already engaged to someone else by then. Of all the things in my life that I sometimes wonder "what if" about, she's right at the top. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Dave Hanson Date: 01 Jul 08 - 01:55 AM Angela, unfortunately not well named. Always remember, ' It is better to have loved and lost ' eric |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: mg Date: 01 Jul 08 - 02:24 AM Patrick. His second name was Fantastic. mg |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Dave Roberts Date: 01 Jul 08 - 09:45 AM Sheila |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: kendall Date: 01 Jul 08 - 11:01 AM I think, "Given" name is more accurate than "Christian" name. Anyway, did you ever notice that it is girls and women who use that word, "Crush"? What exactly does it mean? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Liz the Squeak Date: 01 Jul 08 - 01:58 PM Because that's how you feel when you look at them... like you can't breathe and you're being crushed. It's also the way you feel when the bastards tell you they're already married or don't fancy you.... It's usually a term used to describe a fancy for an unobtainable person - usually a film star or member of a pop band, a married friend or a fellow worker (never dip your pen in the company ink), someone you see often but cannot have. Sometimes crushes can go on to be the real thing, but mostly they just last until the next handsome actor or gorgeous singer comes along. The trick is to recognise the fleeting nature of such and not let it suck you in completely. Many an angst ridden teenager has grown up to be a pragmatic adult who looks back and asks 'what did I see in him/her?!' LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Jul 08 - 02:01 PM How about when you find out that that unbearably handsome guy is gay, Liz? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: kendall Date: 01 Jul 08 - 09:18 PM Ok, if you have a serious "crush" on a guy, would you go to bed with him? |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Celtaddict Date: 01 Jul 08 - 09:46 PM Kendall, I think the very nature of a 'crush' makes that quite unlikely. To me a 'crush' means an infatuation, but implies a certain lack of a mature relationship, either through normal youthful immaturity or through unattainability. Don't recall my first crush; there have been so many, and at my (ahem) mature point in life I still develop crushes all too often. I do remember my first love. We were fifteen; his name was Howard and I never once called him that until after we split up. I called him a diminutive from his surname. We have not exactly stayed in touch but have met from time to time, and I have met his wife (he did not marry until pretty late in life). He is a professional and when we have seen each other we have much in common still; I suspect if we had met a decade or so later we would be together still. I also can tell you my last love. He is Paul and we have been married 29 years. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Celtaddict Date: 01 Jul 08 - 09:49 PM A few years after we ceased to date, Howard (feels weird to even type it; I never thought of him by that name) and I were cast opposite one another in a play in a regional theatre company. That was interesting, but I enjoyed it greatly and we seemed to get along fine. When he married, his wedding reception was at the country club where my parents had been members for decades; his were members too. My father ran into him in the corridor, and Howard pulled him into the reception and introduced him to his new bride, saying 'This is ---- ----; he is the father of my first true love.' My father was entranced. His bride was quite cordial. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Jul 08 - 03:40 AM Kendall - to answer your question.... it depends entirely upon the circumstances and me already having a husband is a major circumstance. As for what others would do, I can't answer that, but the incidents of infidelity that abound would suggest that many people would. Little Hawk - been there, done that... it's not always pretty. Still, I don't think he never knew how I felt about him and I was very young. Oddly enough, he was called Paul too.... my life is full of Pauls. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: greg stephens Date: 02 Jul 08 - 06:33 AM Herdwick |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Mr Red Date: 02 Jul 08 - 07:48 AM Tebby Dare I was an early spooner. |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: Leadfingers Date: 02 Jul 08 - 08:26 AM 100 |
Subject: RE: BS: Christian name of your first love From: frogprince Date: 02 Jul 08 - 10:45 AM No, no; 100 wasn't her name; 100 was her agent number; the next number assigned after agent 99. |