First Love

First Love...Turgenev wrote a decent but not definitive piece about it...but it still seems like a difficult thing to write about.  This article, from the Daily Mail of all places, claims that most people never experience the intensity of their first love ever again.  That doesn't seem quite right.

The article describes later loves as diluted versions of the first.  And that seems all wrong.  Rather some things are more intense, and some things are less intense with each go round. But to capture that with precision in writing would be tricky.  Nothing wise or mild about love in NJ Kpopper's experience.  And to go back to an ex just sounds depressing to a bear that somehow hopes for more from the future than the familiarity of the past.