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Tiger’s first love recalls a once-shy teen cub

HOT DATE: Tiger and Dina at the high school prom in ’93 (above). Dina Parr today (below) (© JOHN CHAPPLE )

Here is the woman who broke Tiger Woods’ heart — long before he became a lecherous links legend.

The golfer was just a cuddly cub when he fell hard for high-school classmate Dina Gravell — a leggy, blue-eyed blond, with curves that would set any teenage boy’s hormones racing.

Her all-American good looks would set the mold for the future birdies he bagged, and their relationship offered the first glimpse of Woods as a clingy, possessive ro mantic with a penchant for penning gushy love notes.

“We were each other’s first real boyfriend and girlfriend,” the 34-year- old ex, who now has the married name Gravell- Parr, told The Post in her first interview since the Tiger scandal broke.

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“It was fire and flames. We were in teenage love.”

The virginal young couple — she was 17, he was 16 — first locked eyes in 1992 while in ac counting class at Western HS in Ana heim, Calif.

“It wasn’t love at first sight. It wasn’t a physical thing,” she once told an interviewer.

But romance blossomed in the weeks to come as they lunched together and hung out with a circle of friends.

A sheepish Woods finally stepped up his game by asking Gravell to go to a movie.

Tiger ended the evening with an awkward embrace.

“At the end of the night I had to ask him: ‘Well, was that a date?’ He was all shy and embarrassed,” Gravell. “As we said goodbye, it was really awkward. You could tell he didn’t know whether to lunge for a kiss or not. So we had a hug instead.”

The two soon became inseparable and would pass love notes back and forth during class. Gravell’s family warmed to Woods immediately, treating him like a son and having him over most nights after golf practice.

Tiger used her home to hone his inner Romeo.

“We would wait for my parents to go to bed and then make out on the sofa in front of the television for hours,” Gravell told the paper.

“We were first boyfriend and girlfriend in all sense of the word,” she told The Post.

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The relationship hit a bump when Woods left in 1994 to enroll in Stanford University. She graduated from high school a year before but remained close to home, attending community college.

At first, they traded mushy love letters and even talked about getting married, but the time apart took its toll.

“I was never jealous but Tiger was a little. He’d ask me what I was up to when he was gone. I never cheated on him, though,” said Gravell-Parr, who has kept the missives.

“It was college. He was a golfer. I don’t flatter myself that he was faithful to me.”

Woods ended the three-year romance in a letter.

“He said my parents are very concerned that you’re a big distraction for me, and I have to listen to them. We have to break up,” Gravell-Parr recalled. “I felt I was punched in the stomach.”

But two days later, a broken-hearted Woods called, desperately trying to reconcile.

“He said he was sad and didn’t want to live without me,” she said.

Woods called a few more times and even sent roses, but Gravell never spoke to him again.

“It was so cruel,” she said. “It was so sad. We were so close. And just like that, it was over.”

Now a stay-at-home mom, Gravell has been married for 12 years to businessman Keith Parr. They have three children and live in the Santa Ana Mountains of California.

She is not surprised by the revelations that Tiger cheated on his wife, Elin Nordegren.

“I always hear, ‘That could have been you.’ And I say, ‘Thank God, it’s not,’ ” she said. “A family is not happy because of money, a family is happy because of love and respect. I know my husband loves me and would never hurt me, and that is more important than all the money in the world.”

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