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Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and i have to say, yes, yes, he was. he still is. it is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because i wrote about it! i mean, it's not as if i wasn't a writer. it's not as if i hadn't often written about myself. i'd even written about him. what did he think was going to happen? that i would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "
-Nora Ephron
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Everyone Always Asks, Was He Mad At

Nora Ephron
Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and i have to say, yes, yes, he was. he still is. it is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because i wrote about it! i mean, it's not as if i wasn't a writer. it's not as if i hadn't often written about myself. i'd even written about him. what did he think was going to happen? that i would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "
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