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Crush : 26 real-life tales of first love / edited by Andrea N. Richesin.

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Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Harlequin, c2011.

Unrequited love -- Anecdotes.

First loves -- Anecdotes.

Interpersonal relations -- Anecdotes.

Fantasy -- Anecdotes.

9780373892334 (pbk.)

0373892330 (pbk.)

256 p. ; 21 cm.

Introduction / Andrea N. Richesin -- What I kept / Jacquelyn Mitchard -- When it was all brand-new / Rebecca Walker -- A bruise for every broken heart / Kerry Cohen -- Sweet nothings / Robert Wilder -- The boy in the white VW bug / Ann Hood -- Creative writing / David Levithan -- Three little words / Lauren Oliver -- How Duran Duran saved my life / Katherine Center -- What good is sitting alone in your room? / Jon Skovron -- When we two parted / Sheila Kohler -- To Sir Anthony, with love / Daria Snadowsky -- It never was, not really / Steve Almond -- Red all over / Tara Bray Smith -- Consequently yours / Laurie Faria Stolarz -- Crush me / Suzanne Finnamore -- Love, illustrated / Melissa Walker -- What we know now / Katie Herzog -- Just a friend / Brendan Halpin -- Adam / Amy Greene -- My romantic past (or, What I heard on my relationship): a mix tape / Emily Franklin -- The subtle art of crush-suffocating / Joshua Mohr -- Olfactory / Catherine Newman -- Uncle Greg, a giant chicken, and the murderous pottery wheel / Heather Swain -- Giving up the ghost / Melissa Febos -- What Kitty taught me / Christopher Coake -- Before it gets complicated / Rebecca Woolf.

Contains 26 stories of first or unrequited loves.

Twenty-six authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found, and lessons learned along the way.

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