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Through these snapshots in time, we meet a suburban mom reunited with her high school crush, a World War II-era bride anxiously awaiting her returning husband, a young man pining for his roommate's girlfriend, and more.

The stories span generations and remind us that regardless of age or era, love can be alluring, exciting and - more often than not - fleeting.

"His words burned through layers of buried emotion until it got down to the root of it all and found a ball of pulsing, radiant heat known as my first crush."