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TRAGEDY OF YOUNG LOVE
Calf love is the easiest thing in the world to laugh at. That it is less easy to endure was revealed by a boy criminal last week in a strange letter to the magistrates who tried him. In that document he described the stages of his downfall from the moment when he realised that his first love could not be reciprocated.
Happily most boys and girls recover from the shock of their first love affair without ruining themselves in the process. Yet no one who has studied the adolescent mind can doubt for a moment that, as a rule, the struggle is a severe one (writes John Dean in the London “Daily Mail”). The first love affair is far more serious, far more anxious, than people who have grown up are ready to admit. Nor are its dangers made less, or its burdens lightened, b
