There is a quiet tragedy to young love for those who did not receive the love they needed in childhood. Often, it is not the absence of feeling, but a kind of emotional blindness - a veiled alexithymia - where awareness struggles to register what the body already knows. Their first loves are often only recognised in hindsight - not because they did not love the other, but because they did not realise they already did.

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