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“When I arrived in her room, my mother was crying. She cried a lot that first night, and then, the next day, she cried some more because she was certain Christopher Hitchens had done no such thing, and she was devastated at the thought that she might not be as brave as him about death.”
 — Jacob Bernstein’s beautiful tribute to his mother, the perfect Nora Ephron, is so personal that one almost feels reading it is an intrusion. From what her fans know of Nora Ephron, she might have loved that.