I miss Nora Ephron

Sometimes I believe that love dies but hope springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that hope dies but love springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that sex plus guilt equals love, and sometimes I believe that sex plus guilt equals good sex. Sometimes I believe that love is as natural as the tides, and sometimes I believe that love is an act of will. Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it. Sometimes I believe that love is essential, and sometimes I believe that only reason love is essential is that otherwise you spend all your time looking for it.

I read Heartburn the year I appalled my family by gaining 25 pounds and dropping out of college. I moved home to regroup, earn some money, and punish myself with daily aerobics classes. I enrolled at a local college to prevent my parents from disowning me altogether, drank too much and spent too much time in bars, negating the effects of the aerobics classes. 

I read Heartburn and saw someone going through something far worse and being able to laugh about it and move on. 

I think I still have the stained, dog-eared paperback somewhere.