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'''''Love Story''''' is a cloyingly sweet, yet sad, novel of college romance by [[Erich Segal]].

'''''Love Story''''' is a cloyingly sweet, yet sad, novel of college romance by [[Erich Segal]].

The male romantic lead character was based on an amalgam of two real life college roommates, [[Al Gore]] and [[Tommy Lee Jones]].<ref>Mr. Segal said: The character of the preppy Harvard hockey player Oliver Barrett 4th was modeled on both Mr. Gore and his college roommate, the actor Tommy Lee Jones. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801EED9163FF937A25751C1A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 (New York Times] </ref>

The male romantic lead character was based on an amalgam of two real life college roommates, [[Al Gore]] and [[Tommy Lee Jones]].<ref>Mr. Segal said: The character of the preppy Harvard hockey player Oliver Barrett 4th was modeled on both Mr. Gore and his college roommate, the actor Tommy Lee Jones. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801EED9163FF937A25751C1A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 (New York Times] </ref><ref>According to Time, Gore said that Segal "used Al and Tipper as models for the uptight preppy and his free-spirited girlfriend in Love Story." [http://www.dailyhowler.com/h052500_1.shtml] </ref>

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