Oliver Barrett IV, heir of an American upper-class 

East Coast family, attends Harvard

College where he plays ice hockey. He meets Jennifer "Jenny" Cavilleri, a quick-witted, working-
a teacher but without his father's financial support the couple struggle to pay Oliver's way
through Harvard Law School. Oliver graduates third in his class and takes a position at a
respectable New York City law firm. They are ready to start a family but fail to conceive. After
many tests Oliver is told that Jenny is terminally ill.
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Oliver is upset that he does not figure in Jenny's plans to study in Paris. She accepts his
marriage proposal and he takes her to the Barrett mansion to meet his parents, who are
judgmental and unimpressed. Oliver's father says he will cut him off financially if he marries
Jenny, but after graduation they marry nonetheless.
Jenny works as Jenny makes funeral arrangements with her father from her hospital bed. She
tells Oliver to not blame himself, insisting that he never held her back from music and it was
worth it for the love they shared. Jenny's last wish is for Oliver to embrace her tightly as she dies.
A grief-stricken Oliver leaves the hospital and he sees his father outside, who has rushed to New
York City from Massachusetts to offer his help when heard about Jenny's condition. Oliver tells
him, "Jenny's dead," and his father says "I'm sorry," to which Oliver responds, "Love– Love
means never having to say you're sorry", something that Jenny had said to him earlier. Oliver
walks alone to the open air ice rink, where Jenny had watched him skate the day she was
hospitalized.