[Rain Man]

I'm asking because I'm wondering if there's any imprinting of people we meet when we're younger who are our first impressions of true beauty, and whether they then ascend to an immortal status for the rest of our lives.

For example, if asked this question I would immediately flout the rules and answer "my spouse". If forced to pick a distant second behind my spouse, I would first say that no one else could compare, but then if forced to pick or take a bullet to the head, I would default to a former high school classmate who was ... wow. Just wow. But I've met thousands of women since high school (or at least hundreds), so I wonder if this high school classmate benefits in my memory from showing up early when I was still being flung about in a hormonal hurricane of lust and unrequited desire. The odds seem low that a person's #1 ranking would be someone they knew in high school, but my theory is that high school classmates will rank well in this poll.