I see the girls I kissed, the unrequited loves and lost sweethearts, my own and everyone else's.
By one of the strange coincidences of nomenclature and location that are Sinclair's stock-in-trade, Clare's chief delusional symptom on his walk and in his asylum years was that he was married not only to his real wife, Patty, but also to his lost childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce.
She was of the generation of clever, academically trained women who had lost their sweethearts in the 1914-18 war.
Others, like the so-called spinsters who lost their sweethearts in battle and never loved again, simply hide, nursing a hurt without a name.
Mrs. Noonan lost her childhood sweetheart as well.
Just over a year ago, as his Olympic campaign was gathering steam, Liljedahl lost his childhood sweetheart and wife of 22 years, Agneta, who died after a four-month battle with ovarian cancer.
At the end of 1992, Masters suddenly decided it was time to change partners again, divorced Ms Johnson, and then married a long-lost sweetheart of his youth, whom he believed (mistakenly, as it turned out) had jilted him a half-century earlier.
The inset plots are variations on stock themes the railway accident, the bank failure, the lost brother, the childhood sweetheart but it gains its unique atmosphere from the way Gaskell plays with and overturns conventions, even dispensing with the sense of a normal fictional world.
My mom grieved as a wife losing her childhood sweetheart.
This is really performed for a silent witness, maybe a dead sweetheart or a lost cat.
One video the site is considering posting in the future features a man who had lost touch with his high school sweetheart after the Korean War.
