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I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

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Caroline Leavitt
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 9
Novelist
Boys
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Left
Typical
Firsts
Strings
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Heart
Hearts
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Love
Behinds
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Charismatic
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