Delia Ephron on getting a second chance at life and love in your 70s

The Shift with Sam Baker

Sam Baker Ltd

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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My final guest of the season is the acclaimed screenwriter and bestselling author, Delia Ephron. Unfailingly wise, warm and witty, Delia is perhaps best known as co-writer of the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks smash hit You’ve Got Mail, with her sister, the writer and director Nora Ephron,. Delia’s new memoir, Left On Tenth, is the kind of story that would out-rom if not out-com - anything Nora could have come up with. Except… every word is true. At 72, Delia found herself quite literally left on Tenth street in Manhattan, when her husband of 37 years, Jerry, died of cancer, just three years after the death of her beloved big sister Nora. A year later Delia reconnected with Peter, a man she didn’t even remember dating in college. It was love at second sight. But that was only the start of the story. Because just four months later, Delia was diagnosed with the same cancer that killed her sister. Now 77, and recovering from a successful bone marrow transplant, Delia joined me from California to talk about getting a second chance at life and love in your 70s, the imperfection of sisterhood, being a lifelong worrier, why friendship is her superpower and shy she's addicted to blow dries (and pastries!). Oh, and, “if someone wants to crush your dreams with their big fat foot get out!”. You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including Left On Tenth by Delia Ephron and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me! And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter, please join The Shift community. Find out more at https://steadyhq.com/en/theshift/ • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.8	Hello and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds-barred truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by me, journalist and author Sam Baker.
0:44.7	My final guest of the season is the acclaimed screenwriter and best-selling author, Delia Ephron.
0:50.1	Unfailingly wise, warm and witty, Delia is perhaps best known as co-writer of the Meg Ryan Tom Hanks smash hit, You've Got Mail, with her sister, the writer and director, Nora Ephron.
1:00.8	But Delia's new memoir, Left on 10th, is the kind of story that would out-rom, if not out-com, anything Nora could have come up with.
1:08.5	At 72, Delia found herself quite literally left on 10th Street
1:12.6	in Manhattan when her husband of 37 years, Jerry, died of cancer. It was just three years after the
1:18.5	death of her beloved big sister, Nora. A year later, she reconnected with Peter, a man she didn't
1:23.5	even remember dating in college. It was love at second sight. It was at this moment in
1:28.0	life or I thought, that's never going to happen again. I'm never going to feel like I'm 35 again.
1:34.1	Not 20s. I never wanted to be my... No, yeah. This kind of passion and love. I mean, it was just so
1:40.2	fabulous. Now 77, Delia joined me from California to talk about getting a second chance at life and love in your 70s.
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