Has the notion that you can change your minds about things and that earlier infatuations don't last hit you hard?
His early infatuation with a lady opium smuggler in China.
American poetry has recoiled from an earlier infatuation with the infinite, but only to approach it by the back door, through the infinitesimal.
House Democrats have wisely moved beyond their earlier infatuation with mere deadlines.
But the initial euphoria soon waned under economic and political turmoil, while Russia's foreign policy recovered from the early infatuation with the West.
Or perhaps it is connected to his early infatuation with the trappings of service - the waiter's tuxedoes, bow ties and tableside flambés that saw him through college.
His early infatuation was with motor-cycles, and he was a successful trials rider.
During the drive home Dalmarez asks Vera how her husband would react if he read the notes she'd written during her earlier infatuation.
Alan Ross was another who could not recover his earlier infatuation with the area, even though he still occasionally visited it in the company of Minton or Vaughan.
But she concludes that it's all in character - Laroche's earlier infatuations with ice age fossils, turtles and antique mirrors also ended abruptly.