two questions about love

1. does every guy have that girl in his past who has ruined him for all other women? honestly, i'm starting to get frustrated with fighting against idealized memories of whoever was there before me.

2. did magician's in the early 1900's really fall in love with their assistants as passionately as they do in the illusionist and the prestige? if so, set me up. that is my ideal love affair.