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My First Love

On the heartbreak, disillusionment, and the enduring promise of loving a beautiful, but deeply-flawed nation.

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Matthew Dowd
Aug 25, 2026
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I fell in love with her when I was very young.

Youth has a way of blindly looking at the world with optimism and hope. And often times we look over obvious flaws and problematic issues that others older and wiser can see much more clearly.

Many others loved her, but I believed what I saw in her was much more beautiful than they could see. I would say her…

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