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''"There's no love like the [[Title Drop|first love".]]''|[[American Girls Collection|Josefina Learns a Lesson]]}}
Ah... first love. The love that is remembered the most fondly by the [[All Love Is Unrequited|participant]], as this is commonly what people experience when they first have a first crush, but it is also the love before the [[Second Love]], if that should ever happen, and for a guy, he usually holds her memory very close to him if he is a widower whereas for young girls, the memory of the
On the other side, if the relationship with the
There is also the story arc that comes along with the
The phrase is somewhat common in [[Romantic Comedy|Romantic Comedies]], where the heroine is likely to say with a sigh, "Oh, he was my
Compare [[The First Cut Is the Deepest]], where the first love is hard to get over and [[Second Love]], where the lover who has been in mourning for his
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the film ''[[500 Days of Summer|Five Hundred Days of Summer]]'' this leans heavily on the positive end of the [[Second Love]] idea, where boy finds girl. Boy falls head over heels for girl. Girl breaks up with boy. Boy is heartbroken because he has failed to win his
* ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]''. Jack Spade's mother Belle was once in love with John Slade and almost married him. They broke up because he spent so much time fighting crime, and she married the man who became Jack's father. Near the end of the movie she falls in love with John Slade again.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Given the quote above, this trope is referenced in one of the [[American Girls Collection]] of stories, this one being Josefina's, whose [[Missing Mom|mother has died]] before the series began, and it turns out the poem was a favorite of hers, even though she could not read, although the reader is allowed to infer that Josefina's papa read it to her mother, and their relationship was very close, as it takes Josefina's father some time to grow to [[Second Love|love her aunt, Tia' Dolores]].
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'', Anne Shirley was always Gilbert Blythe's
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Harry and Cho Chang. Although it was not so much love as a crush that got ''really'' complicated. On the flipside, Harry was ''Ginny's''
* ''[[Bridge to Terabithia]]'': in this [[Tear Jerker]] of a novel, this trope is subtly implied with the friendship between Jess and his friend Leslie, a girl who introduces him to the titular Terabithia, and this variety of the "special, sweet, innocent" type of first love, on both Jess and Leslie's parts, as Jess realises it was not his teacher he was really in love with, but Leslie, thus her death hits him hard.
* In the [[Casson Family Series]], Rose Casson's
* In [[Charles Dickens]]' novel ''[[David Copperfield]]'', this is an important element, used both ways, {{spoiler|since David marries his first love, Dora, only to realise that they are not well-suited. He loves her but she can't be a partner to him. Upon her death, he marries Agnes, who considered ''him'' to be her first love, and who had loved him the whole time. A rare case of both the unhappy
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry's
* An important element in the novels of [[Jane Austen]], who uses the
* [[Georgette Heyer]] uses this trope several times in her novels. One notable example is ''[[Bath Tangle]]'' in which one main character has to recognise the shallowness of her attachment to her
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[iCarly]]'', Freddie Benson's first crush and his first love will always be Carly Shay, and he is so sincere in this that he has told her that he will be her second husband if necessary, implying that he will always stay true to his
* In ''[[Glee]]'', Finn is Rachel's First Love, while Quinn is Finn's First Love. Cheating, breakups, hypocrisy, [[Dating Do-Si-Do]] and [[Relationship Writing Fumble]] ensue... [[Handwaved]] with the phrase "You can forgive your
* In ''[[Wild Palms]]'', Paige Katz is Harry's first love from college. His wife, Gracie, is of course suspicious when Paige and Harry become close again after years apart.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Buffy and Angel: Angel never really loved anyone before, being a drunken wastrel when he was alive and demon after his death. Buffy never loved anyone before, as she was fifteen when they met, and never truly loved anyone after because of the connection she had made with Angel.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Middle school and high school crushes.
* Also, in some rare cases, the [[Puppy Love]] can cause this between one or both of the participants in the relationship, although it usually happen in the case of the
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