BS: Christian name of your first love

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:46 PM

Or left?

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: 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: 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: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:20 PM

You are the first Peace.

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: 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: Sorcha
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 06:10 PM

Robin. Summer music camp....oh my.

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: 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: The Sandman
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:18 PM

Sherga.

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: 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: Bert
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:56 PM

Now you're not going to believe this

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: kendall
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:06 PM

Barbara

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: 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: 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: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 03:56 PM

Thread creep Wes ? :)

G

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: 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: 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: 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 - 03:35 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 03:23 PM

Jennifer...and we'll be married 38 years next month.

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: 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: 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