Breaking up is hard to do.
Just ask Nora Ephron, whose divorce from journalist Carl Bernstein (of Watergate fame) in 1980, apparently scarred her for life.
First she poured the emotional energy of her grief into the novel Heartburn, an acerbic tale of Bernstein's affair -- while she was pregnant with their second son -- which, three years later, she turned into a screenplay, and three years after that, a Hollywood movie starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. The ghosts of lost love, of a woman scorned, of a mother trying to make sense of an adult problem that hurt her kids, resurfaced in her 2006 bestseller I Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts on Being A Woman. And now, again, Ephron's meditations on divorce, which she refers to as the relationship that "never ends" appear in her latest essay collection I Remember Nothing.
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