Sounds exactly like my first love! It was hard for a year, and I still thought of her from time to time for the next couple of years, but I moved on because she treated me like crap after she broke up with me. Side note: Recently (about 4 or 5 years after she broke up with me) she got a hold of me, she wanted to start hanging out again but she still wanted to treat me like crap.
She was not at all the girl I remembered and had recently dated girls that were more attractive, treated me better, and more going for them in life, so I ended hanging out with her. She then tried to treat me good but it was too late. Moral: Just keep improving yourself and know what you need to fix and fix that, and then fine tune your relationship skills and just keep working toward being a better person.
It will take your mind off the breakup and when she comes back to you years down the road, you will have the option of getting back with her, or staying with your new awesome girlfriend! :).
If the love was real with feelings from the boy side then its hardest to forget the first gf love but if he was taking it for granted and was just playing game then he can forget her when he gets another girl.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.