Al and Tipper Gore's marriage lasted four decades, through a deployment to Vietnam, the near-death of a child and the heartache of losing the disputed 2000 presidential election. But over time, the former high school sweethearts began to grow apart and carve out separate lives, friends said.
On Tuesday, the former vice president and his wife announced that they had decided to pursue those lives apart from each other.
"After a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate," the Gores wrote in an e-mail to friends. "This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together."
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