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by Nora Ephron


  fn1 Nora changed certain names in this piece out of tactful affection.

  What I Won’t Miss

  Dry skin

  Bad dinners like the one we went to last night

  E-mail

  Technology in general

  My closet

  Washing my hair

  Bras

  Funerals

  Illness everywhere

  Polls that show that 32 percent of the American people believe in creationism

  Polls

  Fox

  The collapse of the dollar

  Joe Lieberman

  Clarence Thomas

  Bar mitzvahs

  Mammograms

  Dead flowers

  The sound of the vacuum cleaner

  Bills

  E-mail. I know I already said it, but I want to emphasize it.

  Small print

  Panels on Women in Film

  Taking off makeup every night

  —November 2010

  What I Will Miss

  My kids

  Nick

  Spring

  Fall

  Waffles

  The concept of waffles

  Bacon

  A walk in the park

  The idea of a walk in the park

  The park

  Shakespeare in the Park

  The bed

  Reading in bed

  Fireworks

  Laughs

  The view out the window

  Twinkle lights

  Butter

  Dinner at home just the two of us

  Dinner with friends

  Dinner with friends in cities where none of us lives

  Paris

  Next year in Istanbul

  Pride and Prejudice

  The Christmas tree

  Thanksgiving dinner

  One for the table

  The dogwood

  Taking a bath

  Coming over the bridge to Manhattan

  Pie

  —November 2010

  These pieces originally appeared in:

  Esquire: “How to Write a Newsmagazine Cover Story,” “The Assassination Reporters,” “The Palm Beach Social Pictorial,” “The Boston Photographs,” “Russell Baker,” “The Detroit News,” “The Ontario Bulletin,” “Gentlemen’s Agreement,” “The Making of Theodore H. White,” “Vaginal Politics,” “Miami,” “Reunion,” “Helen Gurley Brown: ‘If You’re a Little Mouseburger, Come with Me …’,” “Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post,” “Dorothy Parker,” “Baking Off,” “Gourmet Magazine,” “A Few Words About Breasts,” “The Mink Coat,” “Fantasies”

  Harper’s Bazaar: “I Hate My Purse”

  The Huffington Post: “I Just Want to Say: The World Is Not Flat,” “I Just Want to Say: The Egg-White Omelette,” “I Just Want to Say: Teflon,” “The First Annual ‘Tell Us What You’re Cooking This Year for Thanksgiving Dinner That You Didn’t Cook Last Year,’ ” “Hello. By the Way. Whatever.,” “Deep Throat and Me: Now It Can Be Told, and Not for the First Time Either,” “The Curious Incident of the Veep in the Summertime,” “Hooked on Anonymity,” “One Small Blog,” “On Bill Clinton,” “A Million Little Embellishments,” “Scooter, Rosa Lopez, and the Grassy Knoll,” “Reflections on Reading the Results of President Bush’s Annual Physical Examination,” “My Weekend in Vegas,” “O.J. Again,” “Say It Ain’t So, Rupe,” “Melancholy Babies,” “Take My Secretary of State, Please,” “On Being Named Person of the Year,” “Condi’s Diary,” “Some People,” “What Did You Do in the War?” “How to Foil a Terrorist Plot in Seven Simple Steps,” “My Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions,” “Hooked on Hillary,” “White Men,” “It Ought to Be a Word,” “The D Word,” “Christmas Dinner”

  I Feel Bad About My Neck: “The Story of My Life in 3,500 Words or Less,” “Parenting in Three Stages,” “What I Wish I’d Known”

  I Remember Nothing: “Journalism: A Love Story,” “Lillian Hellman: Pentimento,” “I Remember Nothing,” “The O Word,” “What I Won’t Miss,” “What I Will Miss”

  New York Magazine: “Pat Loud: No, But I Read the Book,” “Julie Nixon Eisenhower: The Littlest Nixon,” “The Food Establishment: Life in the Land of the Rising Soufflé (Or Is It the Rising Meringue?)”

  The New Yorker: “Lisbeth Salander: The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut,” “Serial Monogamy: A Memoir,” “A Sandwich”

  The New York Times: “Me and JFK: Now It Can Be Told,” “The Six Stages of E-mail,” “Revision and Life: Take It from the Top—Again”

  O, The Oprah Magazine: “On Maintenance,” “On Rapture”

  Rolling Stone: “Jan Morris: Conundrum”

  Vogue: “The Legend,” “Considering the Alternative,” “I Feel Bad About My Neck”

  Wallflower at the Orgy: “Introduction”

  Previously unpublished:

  “About Having People to Dinner” “Commencement Address to Wellesley Class of 1996”

  Lucky Guy

  About the Author

  Nora Ephron was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail and Julie & Julia. She was also a bestselling novelist (Heartburn, made into a film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep), and journalist. Her last books I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing were both huge international bestsellers. She died in 2012.

  BY NORA EPHRON

  FICTION

  Heartburn

  ESSAYS

  I Remember Nothing

  I Feel Bad About My Neck

  Nora Ephron Collected

  Scribble Scribble

  Crazy Salad

  Wallflower at the Orgy

  DRAMA

  Love, Loss, and What I Wore (with Delia Ephron)

  Imaginary Friends

  SCREENPLAYS

  Julie & Julia

  Bewitched (with Delia Ephron)

  Hanging Up (with Delia Ephron)

  You’ve Got Mail (with Delia Ephron)

  Michael (with Jim Quinlan, Pete Dexter, and Delia Ephron)

  Mixed Nuts (with Delia Ephron)

  Sleepless in Seattle (with David S. Ward and Jeff Arch)

  This Is My Life (with Delia Ephron)

  My Blue Heaven

  When Harry Met Sally …

  Cookie (with Alice Arlen)

  Heartburn

  Silkwood (with Alice Arlen)

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  First published in Great Britain

  in 2014 by Doubleday

  an imprint of Transworld Publishers

  Copyright © 2013 by the Estate of Nora Ephron

  Introduction copyright © 2014 by India Knight

  Nora Ephron has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781473509184

  ISBN 9780857522696 (cased)

  ISBN 9780857522689 (tpb)

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