Memoir installment: first boyfriends
A Dueto guide to heartbreak, love and change
There can only ever be one first.
My first boyfriend had the same name as me - Alex - at a time when I lived in a street named Alexander Avenue. We were fated to be together (or so I thought).
Oh how that first love twists your heart and makes your mind dance. I thought he looked a LOT like Michael Hutchence (which only added to my ardour).
I used to ogle his photo and hold it close to my heart (for this was when photos had to be developed in a lab and existed only on glossy paper).
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