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Segal and Johnston, while not lifelong pals, were in the same dorm at Harvard and would go for runs together.
“He built (Love Story) around characters that we knew,” Johnston told The Sault Star in an interview after Segal's death. “We had no idea that he, in fact, was writing his novel while we were living across from him and running with him at 6:30 in the morning along the banks of the Charles River. Life is filled with unusual things."
Segal himself said that the prototype was former US Vice President Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones.
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