They're comfortable talking of love. I know that I love Cara deeply. . . . There's a part of me, that without her, wouldn't be me. But it is young love, and we have a long way to go. They don't call the eternity between 12 and twentysomething a time of perpetual emotion for nothing.
Inexperience has something to do with it.
If they get dumped, they want them back. They think if they just come on stronger, they'll come back. Julie, who is 12 and lives in Roseville, remembers her first boyfriend. She was 11 and they met at a skating rink. So she ditched him.