Sputnik Sweetheart

When the book you are reading starts off with the line:

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

...and you yourself are in your twenty-second year, staying somewhere where spring has just arrived; and are admittedly hoping to fall in love for the first time in your life, you wouldn't blame yourself for getting a sudden self-conscious jolt, would you?

Thanks, Mr. Murakami.