“We started to email, we fell in love so quickly. I really did think I had fallen into my own romantic comedy,” says Ephron who co-wrote “You’ve Got Mail.”
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“It was very passionate and wonderful,” she revealed. “I make movies. I know that when two people fall in love in their 70s you want the camera far away. It was so magical to come out of all that sadness and then to feel again like that. It was amazing.” After the cancer diagnosis, Ephron said, “I thought, ‘This is not a romantic comedy.’ And life isn’t. I think one of the wonderful things about romantic comedies is that, if you’re already in love it allows you to go to the movies and fall in love again. And if you’re not in love they give you hope. And it does happen often in a rather remarkable way I think. But it was the crash of illness which was so brutal on me. It was not — it did not feel — in any way feel romantic.