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Say CathCoy the pre-staging within your first chapter is fine except for the exclusion of any allusion to a rare but very real happenstance of romance, that is, that once-in-a-hundred-lifetimes event when two true soulmates meet. Kurt Vonnegut called this extraordinary union a duprass, a union blessed and cursed with ups and downs. But whatever this union is called you will immediatly know that have met your spiritual self; one reflected in the alternate gender, and from that moment on, no set of intervening circumstances will ever change that simple fact. Like a favorite daughter who marries a hippy and moves away to live in the mountains of Tibet, or a beloved son who is convicted for Grand Thieft Auto; Third Offence and is given thirty years at hard labor in the State Pen. Your love for them, as it should be, is for life. Good luck with your book, I'll bet it'll sell thousands. Mmmm? I was just thinking...could you maybe use a collaborator? I'm experienced. 
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experienced.As a writer/collaborator or Lover/Beloved? Just clarifying. 
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...just a piece of ash?
As if one was barking up the wrong tree?
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I'm finding that many MANY people are "experienced" in what I describe--that is, struggling to emotionally extricate him/herself from a love that went nowhere. In fact, as I started researching my book, I was AMAZED at how prevalent it is. Only once did I meet someone who said, "Oh, I give myself about a week to get over someone." That person was otherwise shallow, anyway. I hope I can do justice to this important topic. There are so many nuances to it, I fear I've just begin to peel the layers.
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just a piece of ash
Don't ya just hate it when folks throw bad puns after good?
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Welcome aBoard, Cath. Your book sounds great. Well, there's always 'old flame'. First love or first crush, if the number's correct. (Somehow second love, etc., just doesn't have the same impact!) Oh--heartthrob? I suppose you could get lengthier with something along the lines of "the one whose protective shell remained impervious to the love I poured over it" (yeah, yeah, sign me up for Bulwer-Lytton). Or how about "mistaken soulmate"? Also--you might try a thesaurus, if you haven't.
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Jackie, why would you want to call this person a thesaurus? Is there something I'm missing here?
Cathy, in every relationship there is one who loves and one who allows himself to be loved.(I forget who said it, and I'm not sure it's worth googling because I think it was originally said in French.)
This use of Lover and Beloved immediately calls to mind the Greek e)rwn and
e)rwmenos. Is this what you are aiming at?
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I was going to suggest Once-Beloved but I like Ember. No implication of anger or dislike, just a fading out. Once-Beloved implies a greater distance in the past with less current emotion.
PS welcome to the board.
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Jackie, why would you want to call this person a thesaurus? Because he couldn't get a taxi. 
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