I must agree with you about the soundtrack. That's actually how I discovered the movie-- in a somewhat backwards way. A few years ago, I was shopping in H&M and I heard a really jazzy, addicting, cabaret-style song that had the flavor of something I'd heard in a musical jewelry box as a little girl. So I did a lyrics search and found out it was "Where Do I Begin (Love Story Theme)" by Shirley Bassey. It was my FAVORITE for the entire summer of 2001. Then I was randomly flipping thorough a piano book and I saw the sheet music for "LOVE STORY" Theme. Aha! This was the song! I began to learn it, and fell in love with it all over again in an instant. It's not a hard song to learn, but it's very emotional and quite profound. A few months after that, I was flipping through HBO and I caught the movie "Love Story" from about the midpoint, but since I knew this was the movie attached to that heavenly song, I watched the whole thing. I cried like a baby! And finally last week, I was visiting a friend and I saw the short novel for "Love Story" sitting around on his coffee table. I'm pretty sure HE was totally embarrassed to have it out there, but I reassured him that I would "take it off his hands" and put it to good use. It was only about 130 pages. I read it over the course of a single day, actually, finishing it up while riding the stationary bike at the gym, and I had to excuse myself to wail and cry in the ladies locker room at the end when Ollie reunites with his father. For anyone who doubts the movie, you MUST read the book. It was so simple, so beautiful, so pure, so unpretentious and so horribly tragic. In a strange way (in my own twisted mind) it's like a half-way mark between La Boheme and RENT. If you still need the piano sheet music, feel free to email me back and I can photocopy or scan it and email it to you in a pdf file!
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