During this time, Oliver and Jennifer find new ways to scrounge every day, making every penny stretch. Oliver and Jennifer live on Jennifer's income for the three years that Oliver is in law school.

Oliver marries Jenny and begins his life separate from the Barrett legacy. Oliver takes this declaration as the severing of the relationship he has been waiting for. Soon after, Oliver's father informs Oliver that if he marries Jenny, he will be cut off from the family fortune.

Jenny sees this when Oliver takes her to meet his parents. Oliver has a strained relationship with his father, due to the fact that Oliver feels he can never compete with his father's accomplishments. It does not take long before Oliver realizes the depth of his feelings for this girl. Oliver does not want the same things from her that he has wanted from other girls. Oliver feels different with Jennifer, afraid to use his normal lines on her for fear she will see through him. It is not long before Oliver and Jennifer are spending every free moment together. However, neither is very good at convincing the other of anything but their joy in spending time together. Oliver tries to convince himself that he does not like this opinionated girl, who does not even know who he is, let alone how prestigious his family is, while Jennifer attempts to convince Oliver she could not care less about his family or his impressive athletic abilities. This encounter leads to coffee, which in turn leads to a date to one of Oliver's hockey games. However, Jennifer, the clerk on duty one fateful night, disagrees with Oliver's preferences and feels free to tell him so.

Oliver prefers this library to the one at Harvard, because the required reading material is much easier to find. Oliver meets Jennifer at the library on the Radcliffe campus. Love Story is the Romeo and Juliet of the twentieth century. However, their union is one of strength and volatility that sweeps them both up in an uncontrolled wave, their love surviving every obstacle except one, mortality. Jennifer is the only child of a widowed baker, as opposite from Oliver as one person can be. Oliver is a child of privilege, the son of a family of importance dating back many generations. Love Story by Erich Segal is a timeless story of tragic love.

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