<p>“What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died?” Love Story.</p>
<p>I missed my chance at celluloid fame when I did not take up the call that went to Boston-area college students to go to Fenway Park and play an extra.</p>
<p>Besides writing Love Story and its sequel, Oliver’s Story, Erich Segal taught Classics at Harvard, Yale and Princeton.</p>
<p>I’ve heard he died in England of heartache. Is he teaching in England?</p>
<p>He had advanced Parkinson’s Disease, and died of a heart attack. He was an honorary fellow of a college at Oxford, but apparently had been substantially non compos mentis for quite awhile.</p>
<p>I loved Love Story.</p>
<p>I lived for a year in what had been the office in his old apartment. I was told that was where he wrote that book. I never felt any vibrations and was never sorry that I didn’t.</p>
<p>Lergnom,
Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry for not writing another book like his…</p>
<p>'Bull**** Preppie!"</p>
<p>H and I saw the movie in Boston while in college (we got the last two seats at a sold out performance and considered ourselves terribly lucky), and I remember weeping all the way back to the dorm. Now whenever I catch a glimpse of the movie it seems incredibly cheesy—as I’m sure today’s weeping girls will find the Twilight movies when they reach their fifties!</p>
<p>My brother took a class from him at Yale. So sorry to hear of his passing, but love that someone said he died of “heartache”. That would have been sadly appropriate.</p>
<p>It was filmed during my freshman year at Harvard, and some of my friends were extras. A couple of years later, I got to meet Erich as a result of my then boyfriend’s taking a class from him at Harvard, where Erich was a visiting prof. Erich invited us and other students to a party at his place, and also gave me an autographed copy of Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style.”</p>
<p>I loved that movie. I thought it was sooooo romantic, and I thought it was so darned cool that it centered around my world. Now it just seems so long ago and cheesy and that makes me feel so o…</p>
<p>An autographed copy of Elements of Style; wonder what that will be worth 
Too bad the 3 copies we have here at home aren’t worth anything, although they are well worn.</p>
<p>My daughter has never seen the movie or read the book so I had her add it to her Netflix; we will watch together. I am sure there is a copy of the book somewhere at my mother’s house; I will have to go look this weekend.</p>