This was the first physical affection the girls had known.
We shouldn't be too surprised Michelle picked up a piece of Target's latest designer collection, given the first lady's affection for both Jason Wu (her choice for her inaugural ball gown, of course) and Target (she hit up the big box store back in September).
Not that the second season of "Downton," a piece of gimcrack compared to the first, deserved all the affection it received.
The first object of her affection was a bisexual British millionaire named Edward James, who published Minotaur, a magazine about art and psychoanalysis beloved by the Surrealists.
While Drake waits for Rose to call off her engagement, Jackson shows the first glimmers of real affection for Mimi as his friend hovers between life and death.
But if a rift between the public and the armed forces was healed by the first Gulf war and public affection for the troops has rarely wavered since other ghosts lingered.
Even with Rosaline, the first object of his affections, he makes you fear for his unguarded heart.
He wrote that he met Huma, the first object of his affections, at a bus stop, and that he found her "very weak and difficult to convince".
His first 16mm Bolex got him nowhere with the first object of his affections, one Florence, but he was later famously linked with Juliette Binoche, his muse and the star of two of his films.
The few daring men who were in close quarters with the first bull accept the affections of young ladies.
